First edition: 256 pages, colour frontispiece, maps, numerous colour plates and text illustrations, half green leather with marbled paper boards, a fine copy housed in a matching green cloth slipcase with matching marbled paper sides and a plate sunk illustration.
Editor’s note: Cycads of Africa is the most complete reference work on the genus Encephalartos and includes all 50 known species of this distinctively African group as well as the sole living representative of the genus Stangeria. It also includes a single species of Cycas - endemic to Madagascar but introduced to East Africa by Arab traders some centuries ago.
- Overall Condition: A fine copy
- Size: 4to (310 x240 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021 794 0600
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard via PayGate secure links and Bank transfers.
- Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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