Brenthurst Press First series Volume 4. Beige cloth boards with gilt lettering. Colour frontispiece plus 90 colour plates and text. 218 pages. The dust jacket has slight edgewear. A good copy.
“Jakob Breyne (1637—1697) and his son Johann Philipp (1680—1764) were wealthy merchants of Danzig who collected rare and exotic plants. In 1724 Johann Philipp had 86 watercolour drawings of plants from the Cape of Good Hope bound in an album. All the drawings are unsigned and were executed by several artists. The Cape is well known for its profusion of indigenous wild flowers, and these centuries-old paintings are here reproduced for the first time, together with an introduction, and notes on each plant depicted”. -The Brenthurst Press.
- Jacket Condition: Good
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 1978
