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  1. The flora capensis of Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne
    Published: 1978
    Publisher:  Brenthurst Press, Johannesburg

    "The 'Flora Capensis' compiled by Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne and bound in 1724 and here published for the first time, is a collection of water-colour paintings of some flowers of the Cape of Good Hope, rather than a botanical treatise. No... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
    Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    "The 'Flora Capensis' compiled by Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne and bound in 1724 and here published for the first time, is a collection of water-colour paintings of some flowers of the Cape of Good Hope, rather than a botanical treatise. No earlier manuscript with the same title is known to us." (Introduction, p. 11)

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0909079072; 0909079080
    RVK Categories: WL 1080 ; WB 2442
    Series: Brenthurst series ; 4
    Subjects: Plants; Wild flowers; Watercolor painting
    Scope: 218 S., überw. Ill., 27 x 27 cm
    Notes:

    "This printing is limited to one thousand copies made up as follows: 25 copies bound in full leather numbered A to Y; 125 copies bound in half leather numbered 1 to 125; 850 copies bound in cloth." (p. [4])

    Bibliography: p. 214-218