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Schlechtendal's Sketches of Plants, complete in five separate parts.
56pp. Continuous pagination. 30 plates. Text in Latin.
No general title page. Catalogued from cover. First part has title page.
Section prima. Adumbratio filicum in Promontorio Bonae Spei provenientium "Section one. A Sketch on the Ferns of the Cape of Good Hope".
"Contains excellent figures of Cape ferns. The work having been abandoned before its conclusion there is no title page or index". - P. Macowen & H. Bolus, Catalogue of printed books and papers relating to South Africa. Pt. I. Botany. p.66)
Contains the original Notitia, a single leaf loosely inserted into the first part, being the author's Notice, detailing the scope of the work.
All five parts are complete and in good condition with an old, light semi-circular damp mark on the fore edge. Comes with the original, contemporary half-vellum file holder. Original invoice, dated 1984, included for the sale of this item by Antiquariaat Junk to Mr. Robin Fryde, who was the owner of Thorolds, the renowned Johannesburg Africana bookshop.
A complete set of all five parts is very scarce, even more so if it contains the Notitia.
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 4to.
- Name: Rare Paper
- Contact Person: Armandt Marais
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 0741235861
- Preferred Payment Methods: EFT, Bank Deposit. For International Customers: Paypal with 6% surcharge, International Transfer
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