Hello. We have the following lots on auction. This auction is now open for bidding and closes tomorrow Wednesday 1st November 2021 at 16.30 GMT (18.30 local time).
We apologise for this late advice. The lots comprise selections of botanical and anglo-boer war interest. ----------------------------------------- Lot 172 #28155 Katherine Saunders. FLOWER PAINTINGS OF KATHARINE SAUNDERS With Botanical And Biographical Notes And Explanations. (Biography, Edward Saunders. Notes, A. Bayer) Tongaat Group, Natal 1979. Published to commemorate the 60th year of the Tongaat Group. 16 Folios containing about 700 of her botanical illustrations have survived in various archives. This volume reproduces 147 of her works in 106 plates. She is cited as contributing numerous species of Natal plants to the Kew Herbarium and the Kew Museum. 16 plants are named after her. Gilt dec green leather boards. 327pp illustrated full-page coloured plates. To see this book visit this URL: https://tinyurl.com/3ykbnyre Lot 273 #28154 Fried & Jutta Von Breitenbach TREE ATLAS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. / BOOMATLAS VAN SUIDER-AFRIKA. Section 1. Dendrological Foundation. Pretoria 1992. The other planned 23 sections were never published. Bilingual English & Afrikaans text provides full description of each tree with local names and descriptions of botanical features plus earliest location of specimens with quarter degree grid reference. Gilt decorated brown boards. 226pp illustrated colour and b/w. Original erratum slip. To see this book visit this URL: https://tinyurl.com/42626sr8 Lot 174 #28153 Alfred Byrd Graf. EXOTICA Series 3. Pictorial Cyclopedia Of Exotic Plants From Tropical And Near-Tropic Regions. Roehrs Company. Rutherford, USA. Guide to care of plants indoors, horticultural colour guide, plant geography. A comprehensive pictorial record of ornamental plants from tropical and warm climate regions of the world known to horticulture and cultivated for the enjoyment of their decorative properties. Almost 6kg of encyclopaedic information about exotic plants and how to grow them. To see this book visit this URL: https://tinyurl.com/y2ovqm89 Lot 175 #28156 Fred J. Chittenden & Patrick M. Synge. THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. A Practical And Scientific Encyclopaedia Of Horticulture. 5 volume set Oxford University Press 1956/1969 This work aims at describing every plant suitable for cultivation in the British Isles both indoors and under glass, thereby also covering almost all plants suitable for cultivation in temperate climes. In addition, as notes on many tropical and sub-tropical plants are included, this work should be valuable to horticulturalists all over the world. Each genus has a general account followed by descriptions of individual species and such hybrids as are long established and widely grown. Green cloth boards. 4 volumes, total 3416pp, plus 1 volume Revised and Reset supplement of 554pp. To see this book visit this URL: https://tinyurl.com/24bdd92w Lot 178 #28157 L.H. Bailey THE STANDARD CYCLOPEDIA OF HORTICULTURE. A Discussion For The Amateur And The Professional And Commercial Grower .... Macmillan. New York 1935. ".... Of The Kinds, Characteristics And Methods Of Cultivation Of The Species Of Plants Grown In The Regions Of The United States And Canada For Ornament, For Fancy, For Fruit And For Vegetables; With Keys To The Natural Families And Genera, Descriptions Of The Horticultural Capabilities Of The States And Provinces And Dependent Islands, And Sketches Of Eminent Horticulturalists". 3 volumes. 3639pp total. Over 4000 figures and plates. To see this book visit this URL: https://tinyurl.com/y9am92ha Lot 358 #28183 G. Jordaan HOE ZIJ STIERVEN. (How They Died). Die Stem Drukkerije. Burgersdorp 1904. Mededeelingen Aanngaande Het Einde Dergen, Aan Wien Gedurende Den Laatsten Oorlog, In De Kaap-Kolonie, Het Doodvonnis Voltrokken Is. ("Notices Concerning The End Of Those (upon) Whom, During The Last War, In The Cape Colony, The Death Sentence Has Been Executed ". Collected by the author, with many portraits). Printed tan boards. 220pp illustrated 8vo. To see this book visit this URL: https://tinyurl.com/23dezead Lot 359 #28184 S.P. Engelbrecht. THOMAS FRANCOIS BURGERS. 'n Lewenskets. (A Life Sketch) J.H. De Bussy / H.A.U.M. Pretoria 1933. Afrikaans text. 'A Life Sketch' of Thomas Burgers who was the 4th president of the South African Republic from 1872 to 1877.This biography covers his full life. Gilt title and device on black cloth boards. 416pp illustrated. Re-cased with new quarter leather spine with gilt tile, leather corners, and new end papers (small portion or original tipped in). To see this book visit this URL: https://tinyurl.com/yc26j46b Lot 361 #28185 GEDENKBOEK VAN DEN OORLOG IN ZUID - AFRIKA. Met Afbeeldingen En Portretten, Benevens Kaart Van Suid Afrika. Hollandsch - Afrikaansche Uitgevers Maatschappij. Amsterdam & Kaapstad 1904. Afrikaans text. 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