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THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828). Plantarum Capensium Species Novae. Uppsala: Palmblad et C., 14 April - 24 November 1824. Parts 1-3 in one, small 4° (197 x 155mm). Part 4, 4° (255 x 197mm). Title to each part, paginated in manuscript upper right. Stitched; uncut and unbound. (Light marginal dampstain.)
Thunberg's catalogue of plants discovered at the Cape of Good Hope, complete in four parts. A Swedish botanist and doctor, Thunberg studied with Linnaeus at Uppsala, becoming botanical demonstrator there in 1777 and succeeding him as full Professor of Botany and Medicine after 1781. Thunberg gave his herbarium, which contained specimens from his travels in Java, Japan, Ceylon and the Cape of Good Hope, where he resided from 1772 to 1775, to Uppsala University in 1785. Stafleu & Cowan 14.410.
RAWSON, Rawson William (1812-1899) and L. PAPPE. Synopsis Filicum Africae Australis; or An Enumeration of the South African Ferns hitherto unknown. Cape Town: Saul Solomon and Co., 1858. 8° (225 x 140mm). Original brown wrappers, with ALS from Rawson pasted inside upper cover, discussing his collection of ferns. Presentation copy to Macleary (inscription on title; autograph letter). Rawson was the Colonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope from 1854 to 1864. [And:] 2 others on the ferns and zoology of the Cape of Good Hope, including Thunberg's Illustration of the Species of Lycium, with engraved plates. (5)
Thunberg's catalogue of plants discovered at the Cape of Good Hope, complete in four parts. A Swedish botanist and doctor, Thunberg studied with Linnaeus at Uppsala, becoming botanical demonstrator there in 1777 and succeeding him as full Professor of Botany and Medicine after 1781. Thunberg gave his herbarium, which contained specimens from his travels in Java, Japan, Ceylon and the Cape of Good Hope, where he resided from 1772 to 1775, to Uppsala University in 1785. Stafleu & Cowan 14.410.
RAWSON, Rawson William (1812-1899) and L. PAPPE. Synopsis Filicum Africae Australis; or An Enumeration of the South African Ferns hitherto unknown. Cape Town: Saul Solomon and Co., 1858. 8° (225 x 140mm). Original brown wrappers, with ALS from Rawson pasted inside upper cover, discussing his collection of ferns. Presentation copy to Macleary (inscription on title; autograph letter). Rawson was the Colonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope from 1854 to 1864. [And:] 2 others on the ferns and zoology of the Cape of Good Hope, including Thunberg's Illustration of the Species of Lycium, with engraved plates. (5)
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