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Gunn (M.) and Codd ( L.E.) BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICA An illustrated history of
An illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape Flora. Biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.
400 pages, colour frontispiece - painting of a baobab by Thomas Baines, illustrated throughout, green cloth titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket now preserved in a Brodart protector.
Botanical Research Institute
Pretoria
1981
4to (285 x 210 mm)
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An illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape Flora. Biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.
400 pages, colour frontispiece - painting of a baobab by Thomas Baines, illustrated throughout, green cloth titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket now preserved in a Brodart protector.
Botanical Research Institute
Pretoria
1981
4to (285 x 210 mm)
To bid please visit AntiquarianAuctions.com
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