Botany
JOSEPH KNIGHT'S CULTIVATION OF THE PLANTS BELONGING TO THE NATURAL ORDER PROTEACEAE, (1809) 1987
xxxviii (introduction) + xix + 127 pages, az and publishers advertisements, 4to (297 x 235 mm), 4 colour plates (the original frontispiece and 3 additional plates by F.A. Bauer), 2 engraved portraits, ...
R750
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS, 1914
23 pages, 8vo (250 x150mm), grey card wrappers.
R400
WILLIAM TURNER, 1965
273 pages, 8vo (245 x 160 mm), blue cloth titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket
R200
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE HERBALS, 1977
270 pages, 8vo (235 x 155 mm), numerous black and white illustrations, brown cloth, a very good copy
R500
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ERICAS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, No date (1967)
180 pages, colour photographic frontispiece - Erica Tumida growing at 5,000 ft on a mountain in the Cold Bokkeveld north of Ceres, 167 colour plates, 2 further colour plates reproduced from Bauer's ...
R875
SOUTHERN AFRICAN EPIPHYTIC ORCHIDS, 1978
248 pages, colour frontispiece, 102 colour plates each with descriptive text and a distribution map opposite, 25 colour illustrations from photographs, folding key to the genera, red rexine, titled ...
R1,500
FLOWERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1988
Limited edition: 401 pages, 100 colour plates. Original dark green simulated leather boards, gilt on spine. Illustrated dust jacket protected in plastic slip cover. A very good copy. This is copy ...
R1,750
FIRST CHECK LIST OF THE HERBACEOUS FLORA OF MALAWI, 1968
113 pages, small 4to (250 x 185 mm), green cloth back, grey paper-covered boards, a good copy
R100
INDEX ALTER PLANTARUM QUAE IN HORTO ACADEMICO LUGDUNO-BATAVO ALUNTUR, 1727
First Edition, second issue: 2 volumes: I. (34), (vi), 320. II. 270, (xviii index), pages, titles printed in red and black, engraved vignettes on the title pages, folding engraved plan of the ...
R40,000
ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY, No date (circa 1919)
96 pages, 8vo (185 x 125 mm), illustrations, grey card wrappers
R400
WELWITSCHIA, 1978
Editor's note: 'Even today, more than a century after its discovery, Welwitschia mirabilis remains the crown jewel of the Plant Kingdom and the paradox of the Namib Desert. When it was brought to ...
R850
SOUTHERN AFRICAN FERNS AND FERN ALLIES, 1990
359 pages, 4to (305 x 220 mm), double page colour map, 83 plates from line drawings and numerous colour illustrations and distribution maps in the text, green cloth, a very good copy in the dust ...
R3,500
GENERAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL FEATURESOF THE VEGETATION OF THE MORE ARID PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA" WITH NOTES ON THE CLIMATIC ENVIRONMENT, 1924
159 pages, 8vo (250 x 170 mm), 31 plates numerous maps and other illustrations" bound in light brown card wrappers" slightly soiled
R450
LITHOPS. Flowering Stones, 1988
254 pages, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, line drawings, 6 maps, yellow cloth, a fine copy in the dust jacket. Number 291 of an edition limited to 2500 copies. Size: Small 4to (250 x ...
R2,500
GENERA OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN FLOWERING PLANTS, 1975 & 1976
2 volumes, small 4to ( 245 x 190 mm), 756 + (756 - 1040) pages, green skivertex
R1,000
KIRKIA Volume 1 1960 - 1961, [1962]
164 pages, 8vo (250 x160mm), frontispiece, maps - 1 folding, 20 plates, blue cloth tilted gilt on upper cover
R750
LINNEANEAN KEEPSAKE, 1973
70 pages, small 4o (255 x 190 mm), illustrations, brown cloth spine titled gilt, marbled paper boards, a very good copy
R150
HANDBOOK OF SUCCULENT PLANTS, 1960
3 volumes, 1442 pages continuously paginated, 3 folding maps at back of volume III, 1617 illustrations, red cloth, black title labels gilt on the spines, a very good set
R1,500
SOUTH AFRICAN ALOES, 1969
144 pages, 4to (245 x 195 mm), numerous colour plates, line drawings, green cloth , slight marks along the fore-edge of the page with the Foreword, a very good copy in the dust jacket.
R1,500
GUIDE TO THE FLORA OF THE CAPE PENINSULA, 1966
310 pages, 8vo (225 x 145 mm), 156 line drawings in the text, blue cloth, a very good copy in dust jacket. Second Revised Edition
R350