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| The Orchid Hunter, adventures in tropical America |
The story takes place during the orchid fever, in the first half of the 19th century. Rich collectors in Europe, Asia, and the USA paid ungodly amounts of money for newly discovered orchids which they then named and registered. The orchid hunters made a fortune with their expeditions into the South American jungles, digging up and pulling off trees any colorful flowers that may be orchids. They collected and destroyed entire orchid colonies so no other orchid hunter would be able to get that specific plant.
I found The Orchid Hunter in a small Antique Books shop in the old town of Nuernberg.
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| The dedication is dated September 29, 1926 |
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| the orchid hunter rather loses the precious flower than hand them over to another hunter |
Books from this time had a few pictures in color, protected by a sheet of thin parchment paper.
Printed in the old font looks so neat! I am looking forward to reading this tale.
Cool, I like old books too
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ReplyDeleteThis is such a precious treasure! I love not just the book itself but the handwritten dedication from the Mom of the original owner. It is very touching for me because I lost my mom when I was 20 so anything that has her handwriting on my things may it be books like these or some gift cards, they send me so much love from her even if she is in heaven now.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for joining Timeless Thursdays and I am so happy to see you on my blog! I hope you can visit and join again in the next weeks :) Sending hugs from the Philippines!
I feel the same way of anything written by my dear grandmother, I treasure every scrap of paper with her words. Sending hugs back at you :)
DeleteI love the inscriptions in 2nd hand books - and I really love if they have newspaper clippings in them as book marks...
ReplyDeleteI was never so lucky to find newspaper clippings but pieces of old ribbon, poem cards, pressed flowers, those are nice as well :)
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