Herbarium

  THE OLD COMPANY'S GARDEN AT THE CAPE and its Superintendents. Involving an historical account of early Cape botany with a paper on some drawings of South African Proteaceae in the Government Herbarium at Leyden (Holland), ascribed to Hartog, by Dr S.J. Van Ooststroom. Karsten, Mia C: Published by  Maskew Miller, Cape Town, 1951, First Edition, 1951.   Good Hard cover and Good DJ in plastic protector. Ex Library with usual marks and stamps. Pages yellowing and some tape residue on endpapers, Dust Jacket chipped at head and foot of spine.  Green cloth cover shelf worn. Numerous B&W photographs, fold-out map of garden. 188 pp.

Hardback. English. Government Printer. 1950. 1094 pp with colour frontis, bw plates and ten folding maps of which one is in full colour. In fair/used condition. No dust jacket. Spine is slightly cracked but glued. Monumental life's work by eminent botanist and formerly principal plant pathologist of the fungus herbarium in Pretoria, which laid the foundations of Mycology in South Africa.

About the product Author's inscription to upper cover reads"Mrs L. Richfield / with best wishes from / H. M. L. Bolus / Bolus Herbarium / University of Cape Town / Oct. 1 1954."185 x 123 mm; printed grey card wrappers; pp. 96; line drawings in text. Trace of foxing to wrappers; small crease to bottom fore-corner of upper cover; label stain to tail of spine; penned accession code to title leaf verso; occasional fox spot. Good condition. Uncommon (DSAB I, p. 236)"Because of her training as a teacher, Louisa Bolus did everything in her power to inculcate a knowledge and love of the indigenous flora and of nature study among children and laymen. She wrote a school textbook,'Elementary lessons in systematic botany based on familiar species of the South African flora'(Maskew Miller, 1919)."- DSAB V, p. 61 Books: Elementary Lessons in Systematic Botany. Based on familiar species of the South African Flora with an Introduction and Eight Summaries