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(Botany) Nicolaus Joseph, Baron von Jacquin (1727 - 1817),…
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11-Dec-2017
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(Botany) Nicolaus Joseph, Baron von Jacquin (1727 - 1817), Stapeliarum Hortis Vindobonensibus Cultarum (Johannesburg: Constantia Classics, 1982.) Hardcover. Special edition folio sized facsmilie of Von Jacquin's study of the Stapelia grown in Botanical Gardens of Vienna, first published between 1806 and 1819. Limited to a run of 850, of which this is 395. With 64 colour reproductions of Von Jacquin's hand coloured drawings with his notes in Latin. Preface in English. Added to the rear is a list of all the changes in nomenclature from the time of publication. Also, Lemaire, Charles 'Iconographie Descriptive des Cactees' folio sized facimilie reproduction of the 1841-47 original, with dust jacket. (Strawberry Press, California, 1993) 81pp. (as new, in original delivery package, and 4 privately bound volumes of the quarterly 'Aloe' (Journal of the Cucculent Society of South Africa) for the period 1994 - 2005.
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