F. von BreitenbachSuid-Kaapse Bosse en Bome (signed)Signed by the author, Die Staatsdrukker,

Signed by the author, Die Staatsdrukker, Pretoria, 1974, green leatherette boards with gilt lettering,  inleiding, bibliografie, kaart, die bosse, plante en diere, die bome, register, profuse glossy photographic illustration, also diagrams & drawings of leaves, 328 pages, 225 x 305mm, marginalia and written corrections to nomenclature, otherwise: very good.

‘Hierdie nuwe benadering stel die bosse regstreeks in die diens van die volk. Die natuurbewuste Suid-Afrikaner het dus voor ‘n nuwe uitdaging te staan gekom; om sy inheemse bosse te ontdek. Vir hom is hierdie boek geskryf.Die doel van die boek is om die inheem se bosse van die Suid - Kaap aan die leser bekend te stel; om hom te help om hierdie groot natuurbosse van Suid - Afrika te leer ken: hul warde en geskiedenis, hul samestelling en struktuur, hul bome en plante en diere.’ (from the dust-jacket)

This large coffee table book was previously owned by Axel Von Blottnitz, botanist and translator (from the German) of Eberhard von Koenen's 'Medicinal Poisonous and Edible Plants in Namibia'. Von Blottnitz has made extensive alterations to the 'botanical' terms in the text which he felt were correct.