A Garden of South African Flowers
by Stanford, K. C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
(Cape Town: Maskew Miller, c. 1950). Small 4to; original green cloth; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + 63 + (29); 14 monochrome plates. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn; previous owner's inscription and ownership label on front free endpaper; scattered light foxing. Good condition. "There are delightful accounts of happy plant-hunting expeditions, with glimpses of the flowers in their natural haunts whence many were transplanted to join the company already established on that sunny bird-land slope at Banhoek." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 881
- Title
- A Garden of South African Flowers
- Author
- Stanford, K. C
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Maskew Miller, c. 1950)
- Keywords
- South African flowers. Cape floral kingdom. Plant hunters Natural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...