Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum Extra-Tropicarum; or, figures, with descriptions, of extra-tropical South African Orchids, in 3 volumes (1896-1911-1913) + The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula (1918), in 4 uniformly-bound volumes The Bateman volume consists of

The Bateman volume consists of 100 fine hand-colored plates selected from orchids published in the ‘Curtis Botanical Magazine’ from 1846-1866

over English pale green marbled boards with pale green endpapers (original printed green wrappers bound in at rear)

The remarkable color-changes of the last named were well known to the ancients (Book II)"

Imprint at base of spine in two lines on both volumes

in gray cloth-covered slipcase with green marbled paper on the top

Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum Extra-Tropicarum; or, figures, with descriptions, of extra-tropical South African Orchids, in 3 volumes (1896-1911-1913) + The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula (1918), in 4 uniformly-bound volumes The Bateman volume consists ofPp. (vol. 1): vi, (6), (6), with 100 hand colored lithographic plates (partially colored as called for), each with descriptive text leaves, (5), index, appendix; (vol. 2): pp. vi, frontispiece portrait of the author, with 100 hand colored lithographic plates (partially colored as called for), each with descriptive text leaves, (3), index; (vol. 3): pp. (6), with 100 hand colored lithographic plates (partially colored as called for), each with