ORCHIDS OF SOUTH AFRICA by HARRY BOLUS, 2 VOLUMES

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ORCHIDS OF SOUTH AFRICA by HARRY BOLUS, 2 VOLUMES

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Harry Bolus

THE ORCHIDS OF SOUTH AFRICA: ICONES ORCHIDEARUM AUSTRO-AFRICANARUM EXTRA-TROPICARUM; FIGURES, WITH DESCRIPTIONS, OF EXTRA-TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICAN ORCHIDS, 2 VOLUMES

London: William Wesley and Son, 1896 & 1911

FIRST EDTIONS, 8vo, Volume I Part 2: 50 plates with unpaginated text + [iii] index + [2] appendix + [ii] contents + [1] errata pp; Volume II: frontis, vi + unpaginated text + 100 plates + [iii] index pp; rebound, ex-library with associated stamps and paste-ins, Orchid Society of South Africa bookplate, foxing on text block edges, first and last few pages; some foxing in margin of a few plates

Together with

The Orchid Review, Volume XII

London: Marshall Brothers, January 1904 No 133 – December 1904 No 144

8vo, 384pp, illustrated, original boards, ex-library with associated stamps and paste-ins, hinge cracked in one place, foxing in eps, wear to boards
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Location of item(s): CAPE TOWN

THE ENDANGERED CAPE ORCHID PROJECT
Proceeds to benefit the Endangered Cape Orchid Project of the Cape Orchid Society. The Project endeavors to protect and repopulate the Cape Floristic Region with indigenous orchids that are threatened, endangered or critically endangered. The ultimate aim of the Project is to reintroduce one million orchids throughout the Western Cape over the next 20 to 30 years.