Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described
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Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described is a four-volume 19th century text created by German-born orchidologist Frederick Sander
which features life-size illustrations and descriptions of nearly two hundred orchids with text in English
, French
, and German
. Named in honor of the renowned German orchidologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
, Reichenbachia was a collaboration between Sander and English landscape painter Henry George Moon, who created most of the illustrations. Work on Reichenbachia began in 1886 and lasted until 1890, with the first volume being published in 1888, with the subsequent three volumes being published in two-year intervals.
Reichenbachia was created as a two-series set with two volumes per series, with two separate editions being published. The folio edition measures 21.5 by, and the rare Imperial Edition, of which 100 copies were made, measures
29.5 by, weighing 44 pounds per volume. The four volumes were dedicated to Queen Victoria; Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia; Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia; and Marie Henriette of Austria
respectively.
Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
Henry Frederick Conrad Sander was a German-born orchidologist and nurseryman who settled in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England and is noted for his monthly publication on orchids, Reichenbachia, named in honour of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach of Hamburg, the great orchidologist.In 1867 Sander...
which features life-size illustrations and descriptions of nearly two hundred orchids with text in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, and German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
. Named in honor of the renowned German orchidologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century...
, Reichenbachia was a collaboration between Sander and English landscape painter Henry George Moon, who created most of the illustrations. Work on Reichenbachia began in 1886 and lasted until 1890, with the first volume being published in 1888, with the subsequent three volumes being published in two-year intervals.
Reichenbachia was created as a two-series set with two volumes per series, with two separate editions being published. The folio edition measures 21.5 by, and the rare Imperial Edition, of which 100 copies were made, measures
29.5 by, weighing 44 pounds per volume. The four volumes were dedicated to Queen Victoria; Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia; Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia; and Marie Henriette of Austria
Marie Henriette of Austria
Marie Henriette of Austria was the queen consort of King Leopold II of Belgium.-Family:...
respectively.
External links
- Reichenbachia in full-text via the Ball State University Digital Media RepositoryDigital Media RepositoryEstablished in 2004, the Digital Media Repository is an innovation of Ball State University Libraries. The DMR is a publicly-accessible collection of more than 130,000 digital artifacts in sixty-four browsable and searchable collections...