Alpine flora color plates

From yesterday, in the posting “nostalgie du ciel’, from an exchange with Hana Filip about nostalgia, with a reference to (from my father, long ago): guidebooks [to Alpine flowers], including a Swiss one with gorgeous color plates. Which are now inestimable sources of delight but also symbols of great loss. As you say, nostalgia. Now, an inventory of my postings about the one with those marvelous illustrations. — from 7/6/11, the posting “Flora” on two wildflower books: Taschenflora des Alpen-Wanderers : 207 colorirte und 10 schwarze Abbildungen von verbreiteten Alpenpflanzen (by Ludwig Schröter, 1899) (link from the Biodiversity Heritage Library internet archive, where it can be viewed) and Wilhem Troll’s Taschenbuch der Alpenpflanzen (1928) The Schröter … was brought back from my dad’s Swiss visit, during which he not only climbed (modest) mountains and clowned around with his Swiss cousins, but also collected wildflowers, preserving them in a flower press that he brought back to…