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Auction #126 begins on 25 Sep 2025

Batten (Auriol)

THE FLOWERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

Published: Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, 1988

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $50/60

Bidding opens: 25 Sep 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 2 Oct 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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401 + xxxii pages, 100 colour plates, black skivertex boards, titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in slightly soiled 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 the flowers life size superimposed on a finely stencilled background depicting the habit of the plant as well as the habitat.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to ( 320 x 250mm)


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