First edition: 256 pages, colour frontispiece, maps, numerous colour plates and text illustrations, quarter red leather with marbled paper boards, a fine copy.
N.B. This is not a copy of the Collectors' Edition but is the work of another unidentified but skilful binder in Johannesburg.
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: Very good
- Size: 4to (310 x 240 mm)
