Dyer, R. Allen (Ed. (et al)). Flowering Plants of Africa. A magazine containing coloured figures with descriptions of the Indigenous flowering plants of Africa. Vols. 27 to 56. 1st. Ed. Pub. Pretoria, Union of South Africa / Botanical Research Institute, Republic of South Africa. 1948 - 1999
Thirty volume run with over 900 colour plates (numbered 1041 to 1980) plus b/w. illus. Small 4to. Volumes 27 to 49 are hardback, bound in green skivertex (imitation leather), all in fine condition. Volumes 50 to 56 are softback, all in nr. fine condition. Also comes with a nr. fine softback copy of the ‘Index to Volumes 1 to 49’. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas, much loved botanist and conservationist. Gren was a member of the Editorial board of ‘The Flowering Plants of Africa’.
The stated objective of the ‘Flowering Plants of Africa’ ‘is to convey to the reader the beauty and variety of form of the African flora and to stimulate an interest in the study, conservation and cultivation of African plants and to advance the science of Botany as well as botanical art’. It is styled in on the format of Curtis’s ‘Botanical Magazine’ that is still being produced at RBG, Kew. Volume 27 represented the first time that the plates were printed photolithographically.
£500.00 [Ref: 68600]