Svistoonoff nicolas (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Very good, clean, tight condition. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Large, tall hardcover in jacket, 162 pages, beautiful full-color plates throughout. Condition: older book, jacket has some rubbing and scuffing, mostly along edges. Book itself is quite solid and bright with mild reference wear. Very nice overall. mrcl. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good/very good. 1st Edition. 161 pp. Andes Editores, Quito, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Minor wear to the dustjacket. Covers in black buckram with debossed logo on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. No visible traces of usage.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good Plus. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Stated ISBN: 9978650105. Scarce. Text in Spanish, but in point of fact virtually no Spanish is needed as the vast bulk of the book is given oven to colour photographs of Ecuador's orchids by Nicolas Sivstoonoff with a 3 page species list in Latin at the front. In point of fact, you only need to read Spanish for the title page, spine and the jacket flaps. All else is fully explanatory in any language. Lovely full page colour photographs of many species of Orchid. No inscriptions. Original publisher's laminated boards - blind stamped to the front board - and gilt embossed to the spine. The jacket has not been price-clipped; it has a little shelf wear and some rubbing to the peripheries in places. A well preserved very good plus or near fine copy in very good jacket. Scarce.…

First Edition. Large 4to. 161, [2] pp. Chiefly striking color reproductions of a variety of orchids of Ecuador. Prologue by Manuel Esteban Mejia; editing and design by Pablo Corral Vega and Nicolas Svistoonoff. Black cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy; as new. "Ecuador possesses an immense bio-diversity, the variety of orchids testifies to that. The presence of these flowers is a thermometer of health and wholeness. When the orchids disappear, there remains little time before the forest crashes in, before life is exhausted, before hope runs out. .Nicholas the artist, speaks to us of the need to preserve the enchanted world, to save it, to not be dammed to die in the infernao we are building." - dustjacket flap.…