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BOLUS, Harry (1834-1911). Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum Extra Tropicarum; or Figures, with Descriptions, of Extra-Tropical South African Orchids. London, 1893-1913.
3 volumes, 8° (248 x 154 mm). Photogravure portrait of the author in vol. II, 300 numbered plates, in three series of 1-100 (nos. 54/55 82/83 in vol. II and 9/10 & 68/69 in vol. III are each double-page), all lithographs, some colored or partly colored, by H. and F. Bolus; F. Bolus edited the third volume which has a preface by Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit, and a corrigenda slip. Original green. Provenance: F.M. Isaac (presentation inscription of the Bolus Herbarium Library, University of Cape Town, April 13, 1946).
[With:] BOLUS. The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula. Cape Town: Published by the Society, 1888. Offprint from Transactions of the South-African Philosophical Society, Vol V, Part 1. 8° (248 x 154 mm). 36 lithographic plates, some colored or partly colored. – [With:] Second enlarged edition. Cap Town: Darter Bros., 1918. 8° (248 x 154 mm). 119 lithographic plates numbered 1-119 (nos. 16/17 and 59/60 double-page).
FIRST EDITIONS, unless noted, of this comprehensive first work on Orchids in South Africa with illustrations drawn from living specimens. Bolus was a British born South African banker and botanist. Nissen BBI 197; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 625.
3 volumes, 8° (248 x 154 mm). Photogravure portrait of the author in vol. II, 300 numbered plates, in three series of 1-100 (nos. 54/55 82/83 in vol. II and 9/10 & 68/69 in vol. III are each double-page), all lithographs, some colored or partly colored, by H. and F. Bolus; F. Bolus edited the third volume which has a preface by Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit, and a corrigenda slip. Original green. Provenance: F.M. Isaac (presentation inscription of the Bolus Herbarium Library, University of Cape Town, April 13, 1946).
[With:] BOLUS. The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula. Cape Town: Published by the Society, 1888. Offprint from Transactions of the South-African Philosophical Society, Vol V, Part 1. 8° (248 x 154 mm). 36 lithographic plates, some colored or partly colored. – [With:] Second enlarged edition. Cap Town: Darter Bros., 1918. 8° (248 x 154 mm). 119 lithographic plates numbered 1-119 (nos. 16/17 and 59/60 double-page).
FIRST EDITIONS, unless noted, of this comprehensive first work on Orchids in South Africa with illustrations drawn from living specimens. Bolus was a British born South African banker and botanist. Nissen BBI 197; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 625.