Eastern Cape Veld Flowers
by Gledhill, Eily
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Department of Nature and Environmental Conservation of the Cape Provincial Administration, 1969). 8vo; limp pictorial boards; endpaper map; pp. 271; four colour plates and a further sixty-five pages of monochrome illustrations with facing descriptions. Some moderate foxing to cover and occasionally elsewhere. Good to very good condition. "Many genera ... such as Erica (Heaths), Helichrysum (Everlastings), Pelargonium, Eragrostis (Blue Grass) and Aloe, are noteworthy for having a very large assemblage of species. In Southern Africa the Eastern Cape Province is particularly favourably placed to receive full advantage of this variety. It is an area whose natural treasures are little known to the outside world or for that matter to its inhabitants themselves ... " .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11781
- Title
- Eastern Cape Veld Flowers
- Author
- Gledhill, Eily
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Department of Nature and Environmental Conservation of the Cape Provincial Administration, 1969)
- Keywords
- Botany. Eastern Cape. Flowers. Flowering plants. Taxonomy. Identification. Field guides Natural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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