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Auction #129 begins on 26 Feb 2026

Watt (Prof. John Mitchell) and Breyer-Brandwijk (Maria Gerdina)

THE MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA (Enlarged & Extended edition)

Being an Account of Their Medicinal and Other Uses, Chemical Composition, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicology in Man and Animal

Published: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., Edinburgh and London, 1962

Edition: Second 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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Second edition (enlarged and extended): xii, 1457 pages, numerous colour and black & white plates and illustrations, bookseller’s ticket on the front paste down end paper, grey cloth boards with orange title label gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket.

Published thirty years after the first edition, this monumental work is greatly expanded and added research done in Rhodesia, Nyasaland, East Africa and the Congo.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: Thick 4to (260 x220mm)


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