[PREVIOUSLY SOLD ON ANTIQUARIAN AUCTION #4]
Denzil Carr, an amateur in the class of George "Aloes" Reynolds, authored two comprehensive monographs on Southern Africa's two most prolific botanical families - the Acacias and the Combretums. Both have become modern classics in their field.
Two staff members of Fontein Books, Michael Barnett (designer and typographer) and Richard Proctor-Sims (editor), published Combretaceae of Southern Africa for the Tree Society of Southern Africa for a modest honorarium plus the right to produce and market a de luxe edition of six special copies, each a different colour goatskin, printed on Hahnemuele text paper with half-leather and marbled paper binding and solander boxes by Peter Carstens.
One of these was presented to the Special Collection of the National Botanical Gardens in Kirstenbosch, Cape Town.
This, Number 6 (the maroon copy), is being offered for sale for the second time. The book itself is unmarked and mint; the solander box is rated only fine as two of the the corners of the solander box are lightly bumped.
As well as the frontispiece and 16 other full-page colour plates painted by Elise Buitendag, there are more than 300 photogaphs, distribution maps and other b/w illustratons in the text.
This may well qualify as the finest example of botanical book production to have been published in South Africa in the second half of the 20th century.
Strongly recommended to a South African public book collection. Further images on request.
- Jacket Condition: (Solander Box) Fine
- Binding Condition: Mint
- Overall Condition: Fine
- Size: 320 x 240 x 45
- Sold By: Fontein Books
- Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
- Preferred Payment Methods: Eft (South Africa), SWIFT (rest of world), or $ checks for US or Australian buyers
- Trade Associations: AA Approved
