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Wild Flowers of the Transvaal
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Condition:
Secondhand
Location:
South Africa
Product code:
200466 22S
Bob Shop ID:
611873512
Text - R A Dyer, Inez C Verdoorn and L E Codd
Illustrator - Cyntha Letty
Publisher - The Trustees Wild Flowers of the Transvaal Book Fund; 1992, First Edition
A good quarto size hardback book in a good dustjacket.
The dustjacket is 'browned' across the top front edge and spine; one x 1cm closed tear at top front flyleaf hinge; now in loose protective plastic overwrap.
Paperblock top edge is dusty/speckled.
Illustrated end papers.
Retailer's stamped pricing to half-title page.
Pages xiii + 362 with detailed and expansive text and many colour plates.
The paintings of wild flowers by Cythna Letty have earned her the distinction of being referred to as South Africa's greatest botanical artist. Justification for this claim is to be found in the 174 colour plates reproduced in this volume.
As Dr L Bolus says in her Foreword: if these flowers become our fast friends, we shall often recognise their affinities and will have at least a bowing acquaintance with many of their relations - near and distant. Cythna Letty reveals to us in a mysterious way more beauty in the flower than we might otherwise have seen
