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Auction #129 begins on 26 Feb 2026

Goode (Douglas)

CYCADS OF AFRICA (Collectors' Edition)

Published: Struik Winchester, Cape Town, 1989

Edition: Collectors’ Edition

Reserve: $200

Approximately:

Estimate: $250/300

Bidding opens: 26 Feb 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 5 Mar 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Collectors' 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 - binding and case by Peter Carstens, a fine copy.

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)


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