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Auction #118 begins on 03 Oct 2024

Batten (Auriol)

THE FLOWERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

Published: Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, 1988

Reserve: $50

Approximately:

Estimate: $80/90

Bidding opens: 3 Oct 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 10 Oct 16:30 GMT

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401 + xxxii pages, 100 colour plates, black skivertex boards, titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket.

This English standard edition is limited to 4 000 numbered copies of which this copy is number 3124

Editor's note: Flowers of Southern Africa is primarily a collection of paintings of the beautiful wild flowers of a land famous for the richness of the flora. One hundred colour plates are painted in in great detail show th flowers life size superimposed on a finely stencilled background depicting the habit of the plant as well as the habitat.

  • Overall Condition: A very good copy
  • Size: 4to ( 320 x250mm)


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