Book Details
| Book Reference: | 3045 |
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| Author: | MASSON. (F.). |
| Title: | Stapeliae Novae: or, A Collection of Several New Species of that Genus Discovered in the Interior Part of Africa. |
| Price: | £4250 |
| Year: | 1796 |
| Description: | First Edition. With 41 hand-coloured plates, after drawings by the Author, folio, last 4 plates with slight stain on extreme outer corner, the final plate with blank corner renewed otherwise a nice copy in contemporary half cloth, recent slipcase. Masson was the first of the collectors sent out from Kew under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks. Masson was a assiduous collector ( Cape 1772-4 and 1786-95). |
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