Rariorum Africanarum Plantarum (Rare African Plants)
1738
First edition
This book contains the first printed illustrations of 100 Cape of Good Hope plants by Johannes Burmann (26 April 1707 in Amsterdam – 20 February 1780).
Ten parts in one volume. All 100 copperplate engraved plates present. Some bound facing an inconsistent direction, some plates tipped in. Glue residue in the margins of the first few.
Pages Foxed.
Ex Libris book collector George Weare Braikenridge (1775–1856).
R150,000