Baron von Ludwig and The Ludwig's-burg Garden. A chronicle of the Cape from 1806 to 1848 with an appendix showing some of the horticultural introductions of Baron von Ludwig

(Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1965). 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + 124, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper rubbed, edgeworn, and foxed; tape marks to reverse of dustwrapper and rear endpaper; endpapers partially browned; ex-library copy, with slight pocket and label scar, accession code and hand-stamp to front endpaper. Good. Carl Ferdinand Heinrich von Ludwig (1784-1847) "acquired about three acres of waste land in Kloof Road, in the present Tamboers Kloof, which over the years he developed into a most noteworthy botanic garden. In addition to useful fruit trees, vegetables and crop plants, he introduced large numbers of ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs and seeds from Europe, America and Australia. ... Indigenous plants, many acquired from Ecklon and Zeyher, were a feature of the garden and William Harvey records with appreciation that these were freely made available to him for study. Known as Ludwig's-burg Garden, it was highly spoken of by visiting scientists (e.g. Charles Bunbury in 1838 and J.D. Hooker in 1843) and was sketched in its early stage of development in 1834 by Ludwig's friend, Sir John Herschel ... " - Gunn & Codd: Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa, pp. 234-5 .