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ORCHIDS OF AFRICA
Stewart (J.) & Hennessy (E.F.)
Description:
A Select Review, Text by Joyce Stewart and illustrations by Esmé Hennessy.
157 pages, colour frontispiece, 50 colour plates, 8 full page illustrations, brown cloth, with a special tipped-in presentation page: Presented to Prof. E.A.C.L.E.Schelpe, 10 World Orchid Conference, Durban, South Africa. September 1981, signed by both the authors and the Chairman of the conference, a very good copy in the dust jacket in a special presentation cloth-covered slip case.
Details:
- Publisher: Macmillan
- Publisher Place: Johannesburg
- Date of Publication: 1981
- Jacket Condition: Very good
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 4to (360 x 260 mm)
- Lot No: 214
- Hammer Price: $75
- Bids: 1
- Visits: 15
- Estimate: $120/150
- Reserve: $75
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Seller Details:
- Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Address: P.O. Box 186, Constantia, (Cape Town), 7848, South Africa
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country of Origin: South Africa
- Email: africana@clarkes.co.za
- Website: www.clarkes.co.za
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard, Bank tranfers
- Trade Association: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
- Additional Information:
Phone: 0027 21 794 0600
Founded in 1958, Clarkes specialises in Africana and general antiquarian books, prints, maps and ephemera. Africana Catalogues are issued four times a year. All subjects are covered including, African exploration and travel, missionary endeavour, ethnography, Bushmen and rock art, big-game hunting, military history, the Anglo Boer War, Boer War ephemera, Zulu War and the First World War in East Africa and South West Africa, natural history (botany, ornithology, etc.), Mining (particularly diamonds and gold), Natal & Zululand, Namibia, art & architecture, literature & politics. Also Maps, prints and ephemera. We offer an active search service for all antiquarian and secondhand books.
