Trees & Shrubs of the Witwatersrand, Magaliesberg & Pilanesberg
by van Gogh, Joan, and John Anderson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 086977719X
- ISBN 13
- 9780869777190
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Struik, 1988) 086977719X. Folio; original pale boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 112, incl. index; full-page colour leaf and fruit illustrations; line drawings illustrating growth form; distribution maps and habitat diagrams. Dustwrapper and top edges of boards very slightly rubbed; trace of foxing. Very good condition. "In this book, artist Joan van Gogh illustrates the magnificent trees and shrubs of the Witwatersrand, Magaliesberg and Pilanesberg - a highly populated area, long-neglected by botanical writers, yet surprisingly rich in its indigenous tree life. The 150 vivid and accurate colour paintings are supplemented by field data, carefully compiled over the past fifteen years by Joan van Gogh and leading palaeobotanist, Dr John Anderson of the Botanical Research Institute. The text covers the characteristic features of the bark, leaves, fruit and flowers of each of the 159 indigenous species known to occur in the area. The accounts include distribution and habitat maps; habit sketches; an indication of the plant's height and items of general interest." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10052
- Title
- Trees & Shrubs of the Witwatersrand, Magaliesberg & Pilanesberg
- Author
- van Gogh, Joan, and John Anderson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 086977719X
- ISBN 13
- 9780869777190
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Struik, 1988) 086977719X
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town
- This edition first published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Trees. Shrubs. Botany. Dendrology. Botanical art. Witwatersrand. Magaliesberg. Pilanesberg 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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