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Auction #130 begins on 09 Apr 2026

Jacquin (Baron Nicolaus Joseph L.B.A.)

STAPELIARUM IN HORTIS VINDOBONENSIBUS CULTARUM

Facsimile reprint - Collectors' Edition

Published: Constantia Classics, Johannesburg, 1982

Edition: Collectors' Edition

Reserve: $200

Approximately:

Estimate: $250/300

Bidding opens: 9 Apr 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 16 Apr 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Collectors' Edition: unpaginated - approximately 292 pages, 64 coloured plates with accompanying text in Latin, bound in quarter green leather titled gilt on the spine, light brown buckram cloth sides, binding by Peter Carstens, a very good copy.

This Collectors' Edition in Limited to 150 numbered copies of which this is copy number 26

Stapeliarum in Hortis Vindobonensibus Cultarum' (Descriptions of the Stapelieae cultivated in the Botanical Gardens of the Schoenbrunn Palace of Vienna) by the celebrated Austrian botanist Baron Nicolaus Joseph van Jacquin is one of the great works of botanical Africana. A useful feature of this new edition is the inclusion at the end of the volume of an up-to-date nomenclature revision of the species in the book.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: Folio (465 x 325 mm)


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