Botanical from Quagga Books

Studio Editions. Reproduced in this volume are a selection of full colour botanical prints that were published over a period of 340 years but come mainly from the 18th and early 19th centuries. 128 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Near fine. Dust jacket: Near fine. Binding: Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt.

Howard Timmins. Illustrated with more than 400 colour photograps. The struggle for existence on the wild snow-swept summits and their place in Zulu folk-lore and medicine. Foxing to prelims. Foxing to top and fore-edges. 239 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Closed tears to top edge reinforced with clear… Read more about this item

Prestel. An intrepid explorer to South America to study flora and fauna, an artist and natural historian, Maria Merian was also an entrepreneur teaching painting and drawing, establishing an art supply shop and marketed her own work. 50 colour plates and 146 colour illustrations. Natural history commentaries by Wolf-Dietrich Beer. 175 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. … Read more about this item

Howard Timmins. Numerous colour photographs of unique rarities and many of the common and attractive species. Mild spot of foxing to the front and rear feps. 126 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Good. Mild edge-wear. Some sunning to top edge and spine. Foxing to verso. Binding: Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear. … Read more about this item

Howard Timmins. Some of Table Mountain's unique heritage of plants and scenery. Approximately 170 colour photographs. Each species is briefly described with characteristic botanical features emphasized. Small bookseller's label on fixed end paper and some rubbing to the front fep. 120 pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. Revised edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Good. Light edge-wear. Binding: Hardcover.… Read more about this item

Longmans Young Books Ltd. The world of Shakespeare is bright with flowers." Combining fascinating folklore and beautiful illustrations recreating the gardens and meadows of Elizabethan England. Includes index of plants, Shakespearean sources, and Plays and Poems. Mild scattered foxing throughout mostly to page edges. Light foxing to end papers. 895 Pages. Binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust… Read more about this item

The Bodley Head. Slim volume with down-to-earth folklore interlaced with garden wisdom and magic. 60 pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good to very good. Dust jacket: Good to very good. Binding: Hardcover.

Umdaus Press. Field guide of some 1450 of the almost 3200 species known to occur in the Klein Karoo. Short descriptions and salient details are given for each plant. Covering the ecology, plants in their localities and sensitivities of the various habitat types. 2021 colour photographs. Includes CD at the rear. 571 Pages. 2nd Revised Edition. Condition:… Read more about this item

Voortrekkerpers. 146 full colour plates with text on the accompanying page. Includes a plate on common diseases and pests. Contains a chapter on propagation by seed or cuttings, soil mixture and cultivation. Foxing to front and rear prelims. Light foxing to all edges with some thumbing. 299 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair to good. Dust jacket: Fair.… Read more about this item

Murray Coombes. Handy pocket guide for the amateur botanist. 346 Illustrations are arranged in the different seasons and where they are most likely to be seen. Descriptive non-botanical notes. Includes 4 sketch maps: Table Mountain area; Summit Area and Contour Path; Kloof and Forest area; and Mountain Slopes and Pipe Track. Some foxing to fep. Contents clean and binding… Read more about this item

Purnell. Many of the well known species are illustrated and described by the author. 56 colour plates and drawings of 284 species covering most of the important families and genera that have conspicuous flowers. Some mild foxing to the end papers. 118 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Edge-wear… Read more about this item

The Bodley Head. Slim volume of gardening nuggets to delight all true gardeners. Folklore mingled with a sprinkling of superstition and good old common sense. Some mild foxing to end papers. A couple of small discolouration marks to the last two pages. 63 pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Good. Some mild… Read more about this item

Blond & Briggs. The virtues and benefits of the humble weed. They sometimes signal a need in the garden, uses in the kitchen or for illness. Unpaginated. 44 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Cardwraps. Mild edge-wear.

Macmillan South Africa. Descriptions of every species of orchid so far recorded within South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia. Full colour photographs accompany all but a few of the 433 species. Light foxing to prelims and the top page edges. Map as end papers. 307 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Good.… Read more about this item

The Department of Nature and Environmental Conservation. Guidebook with 173 bright colourful illustrations. English and Afrikaans descriptions. Index of botanical and common names. Map of the area on the rear end papers. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Softcover. Some light sunning to spine.

Pearston Publications. Text: Afrikaans / English. A practical, interesting handbook of 50 of the more interesting grazing plants of the Karoo and neighbouring territories. Identified and documented from the practical farming point of view. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Thick cardwraps with light edge-wear.

Umdaus Press. An authorative work providing detailed information on the 48 native figs (Ficus) of Southern Africa. Abundance of illustrations and beautiful colour photographs. There are chapters from 3 specialists in their field on the role that figs play in the lives of birds, animals and insects; the fascinating world of wasps and their relationship with figs; the cultivation… Read more about this item

Breestraat-Publikasies. A comprehensive history of old roses at the Cape. The author began identifying the many old roses which she started collecting from mission villages, cemeteries, farms and small towns in the hidden corners of the Cape Province. 271 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Olive green… Read more about this item

National Botanic Gardens. A monograph includes 101 species in southern Africa. Full page colour illustrations. Foxing with some light toning to front and rear end papers. 224 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good to very good. Dust jacket: Good. Mild edge-wear. Foxing to verso. Some sunning to covers. Binding: Hardcover. Gilt lettering on blue… Read more about this item

The Trustees The Aloes of South Africa Book Fund., 1950. Inscribed by author on the title page and half-title page, 15 years apart. Tracing the history of the discovery of aloes against a background of the early exploration of the Cape and areas further afield. Includes 77 coloured illustrations. An area of the half-title page with part of inscription… Read more about this item