Jan Commelin's Monograph on Cape Flora. Drawings and descriptions of the plants that the Hon. Simon van der Stel, Governor at the Cape of Good Hope, found on his great journey, 1685
by Commelin, Jan (author), and Wijnands, D. O., with M. L. Wilson & T. Toussaint van Hove (editors)
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0620205709
- ISBN 13
- 9780620205702
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: the editors, 1996) 0620205709. One of an edition limited to 350 copies. 4to; original brown rexine, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pp.110, incl. index; monochrome plates, incl. folding. Earlier owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Very good condition. "The work is a manuscript by Jan Commelin, written between 1687 and 1692 but never published. It is based on flora illustrated during the 1685-1686 expedition by Simon van der Stel to the Copper Mountains." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11107
- Title
- Jan Commelin's Monograph on Cape Flora. Drawings and descriptions of the plants that the Hon. Simon van der Stel, Governor at the Cape of Good Hope, found on his great journey, 1685
- Author
- Commelin, Jan (author), and Wijnands, D. O., with M. L. Wilson & T. Toussaint van Hove (editors)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0620205709
- ISBN 13
- 9780620205702
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: the editors, 1996) 0620205709
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town
- This edition first published
- 1997 1st
- Keywords
- Limited Editions. Cape Floristic Kingdom. Exploration. Botany Natural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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