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Flora Capensis 7 Volume Set in 10 Pieces

Flora Capensis 7 Volume Set in 10 Pieces

Flora Capensis 7 Volume Set in 10 Pieces

Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria and Port Natal, and Neighbouring Territories
William H. Harvey
Otto Wilhelm Sonder
William T. Thiselton-Dyer
Arthur W. Hill
July 2014
Multiple copy pack
9781108068161
£428.00
GBP
Multiple copy pack
10 Paperback books

    This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811–66) and his German counterpart Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–81). Relying on many contributors of specimens and descriptions from colonial South Africa - and building on the foundations laid by Carl Peter Thunberg, whose Flora Capensis (1823) is also reissued in this series - they published the first three volumes between 1860 and 1865. These were reprinted unchanged in 1894, and from 1896 the project was supervised by William Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. A final supplement appeared in 1933. Reissued now in ten parts, this significant reference work catalogues more than 11,500 species of plant found in South Africa. Volume 1 opens with a preface which clarifies the project's original scope.

    Product details

    July 2014
    Multiple copy pack
    9781108068161
    6728 pages
    490 × 360 × 190 mm
    8.4kg
    8 b/w illus.
    Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint

    Table of Contents

    • Volume 1: Preface
    • Addenda et corrigenda
    • Table of the classes and sub-classes
    • Sequence of orders
    • Ranunculaceae to Connaraceae
    • Index. Volume 2: Preface
    • Sequence of orders contained in Volume 2
    • Leguminosae to Loranthaceae
    • Addenda to the first volume
    • Addenda and corrigenda to the second volume
    • Index. Volume 3: Preface
    • Sequence of orders contained in Volume 3
    • Rubiaceae to Campanulaceae
    • Addenda and corrigenda
    • Index. Volume 4, Part 1: Preface
    • Sequence of orders contained in Volume 4.1
    • Vacciniaceae to Gentianeae
    • Addenda and corrigenda
    • Index. Volume 4, Part 2: Preface
    • Sequence of orders contained in Volume 4.2
    • Hydrophyllaceae to Pedalineae
    • Index. Volume 5, Part 1: Preface
    • Sequence of orders contained in Volume 5.1
    • Acanthaceae to Proteaceae
    • Addenda and corrigenda
    • Index. Volume 5, Part 2: Preface
    • Sequence of orders contained in Volume 5.2
    • Thymelaeaceae to Creatophylleae
    • Addenda and corrigenda
    • Index
    • Gymnospermae
    • Index. Volume 5, Part 3: Preface
    • Table of the series and orders
    • Sequence of orders contained in Vol. 5.3
    • Hydrocharideae to Scitamineae
    • Addenda and corrigenda
    • Index. Volume 6: Preface
    • Sequence of orders contained in Vol. 6
    • Haemodoraceae to Liliaceae
    • Addenda
    • Index. Volume 7: Preface
    • Sequence of orders contained in Vol. 7
    • Pontederiaceae to Gramineae
    • Addenda and corrigenda
    • Index.
      Authors
    • William H. Harvey
    • Otto Wilhelm Sonder
    • William T. Thiselton-Dyer
    • Editor
    • Arthur W. Hill