Lot Essay
This is the only fully-illustrated work ever published on Mimetes and Orothamnus, rare forms of the Protea found only in a tiny mountain area of the Cape, and today very nearly extinct.
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ROURKE, John Patrick & Thalia LINCOLN. Mimetes, an illustrated account of Mimetes Salisbury and Orothamnus Pappe, two notable Cape genera of the Proteaceae, Cape Town: Tiyan, 1982, large 2°, number 193 of a limited edition of 500 copies signed by J. P. Rourke and Thalia Lincoln on the limitation leaf, 15 coloured plates including 14 by Thalia Lincoln, each signed and dated by the artist, numerous maps, portraits and botanical illustrations by Linda Davis, original brown and green leather gilt by Wolfgang Schwörer, in original cloth slipcase (slight stain to front of slipcase).