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Author: Bolus, Harry
Title: The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula
Place: Cape Town
Publisher: Darter Bros. & Co.
Date: 1918
Item # : 169246
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   41
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 517
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Description:
xxxiii, 142, 119 plates pp. Edited by Harriet M. L. Bolus and Alice M. Greene. Illustrated with 117 hand-colored plates (16-17 and 59-60 are double-page plates). 9½x6, green cloth with gilt-lettered spine and cover.
Brilliantly colorful and descriptive plates.
Condition:
Light rubbing to spine ends, corners bumped; ink inscription to front paste-down, minor darkening to free endpapers, else near fine.
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