The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern Africa . . . (1932)

Watt, John Mitchell and Maria Gerdina Breyer-Brandwijk

Description:

". . . Being an account of their Medicinal Uses, Chemical Composition, Pharmacologic Effects and Toxicology in Man and Animal"

This is a desirable copy of a book that remains invaluable but rare.

The blue cloth-boards, blind embossed to the front and gilt to the spine, are bright and clean, with the usual wear at the extremities as well as a small chip out of the lower fore-edge of the front cover and a rubbing mark at the lower end of the spine. The binding remains firm. A pencil note on the otherwise unmarked and undiscoloured endpapers may indicate the date of a review. The xx + 320 pp of text, two appendixes and four indexes are complemented by a colour frontispiece and 11 other inserted plates in colour and 14 in monochrome.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: E & S Livingstone
  • Publisher Place: Edinburgh
  • Date of Publication: 1932
  • Edition: First
  • Binding Condition: Good +
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 257 x 200; 1.2 kg
  • Lot No: 315
  • Hammer Price: $150
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 129
  • Estimate: $300
  • Reserve: $150

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  • Name: Fontein Books
  • Address: 27 Voortrekker Street, Philippolis 9970
  • Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
  • Country of Origin: South Africa
  • Email: fontein@wol.co.za
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  • Trade Association: AA Approved
  • Additional Information: Fontein Books has for several years participated in Antiquarian Auctions and its predecessor. It specialises in historical and contemporary books on the Free State and Northern Karoo, and is also an active buyer and seller on commission in these and other fields. Fontein's owner, Richard Proctor-Sims, was an editor, writer and small publisher until 2005, when he moved from Johannesburg to Philippolis, the first settlement (1822) north of the Gariep or Orange River, where he opened his first physical bookshop (to which buyers and sellers are welcome), with reasonable holdings in Africana, both Anglo-Boer wars, biography, history, military history, natural history and travel. He regularly visits Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town and offers to deliver heavy or valuable books or sets to these cities on such visits. Richard Proctor-Sims retains the copyright of Fontein's Antiquarian Auction descriptions and these may not be reproduced without permission and acknowledgment.