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.
- Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
- Size: 4to (285 x 210 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
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