BOLUS (Harry).

The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula

Offprint. 36 plates, partly coloured. Original blue cloth, gilt & blind-stamped, a little rubbed. viii, 75-200pp. Cape Town, 1888.

£700.00

An offprint from the Transactions of the South-African Philosophical Society, 1888, Vol. V, Part I.

Bolus was the first orchidologist based in Cape Town. This volume was a precursor to his three volume work Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanorum Extratropicarum, published between 1893 and 1917. Nissen BBI, 197.

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