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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Bayer, Bruce; J G Marx (illustrator); J D Venter (photographs); P V Bruyns (foreword)

Haworthia Revisited. A Revision of the Genus. And The New Haworthia Handbook

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This lot comprises a pair of already rare books on Haworthia by the same author but published almost twenty years apart:

  1. Bruce Bayer. Haworthia Revisited. Umdaus Press, Pretoria, 1999, first edition. Unclipped laminated colour-illustrated french-fold dustjacket, green cloth-boards, gilt to the spine, plain endpapers, [x] pp of prelims, including a colour map, + 250 pp of colour- and b/w-illustrated text with distribution maps, appendixes, bibliography, index and list of subscribers. 270 x 220 mm. Condition: as new, except for a small indentation at the bottom of the front of the dustjacket flap.
  2. M B Bayer. The New Haworthia Handbook. Foreword by H B Rycroft. National Botanic Gardens of South Africa, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 1982. This in itself was a revision of the author's original monograph published a year earlier and based on work by C G Smith and Dr M Courtenay-Latimer. Drawn-on printed linen limp covers, plain endpapers, 124 pp of prelims, text, appendixes and index on wove paper + 20 pp of inserted colour plates on matt-art paper illustrating more than sixty species. 240 x 170 mm. Condition: as new throughout.

A pair of sought-after books by the same author.

  • Size: Together 1.7 kg
  • 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


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