Top view of an old, worn-out book with a brown cover inside a black frame with a brown border, the right section has a damaged, textured surface.

Rariorum Africanrum Plantarum by Johannes Burmann

By Burmann, Johannes. Rariorum Africanarum plantarum, ad vivum delineatum, iconibus ac This book contains the First printed illustrations of 100 Cape of Good Hope plants.Linnaeans, p. 166. For the watercolours see: Codex Witsenii. An important work with the first illustrations of many Cape of Good Amsterdam, Nikolaas Witsen and via that route they served as the source for the engravings in the made the drawings.

This item is being sold for R130,000.000

24 x 30 x 6

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