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TITLE: Mills of Southern Africa
AUTHOR: Chester Staples
PUBLICATION DATE: September 2006
SPECIFICATIONS: Book size: 250 x 280 mm (portrait), approximately 240 pages, 17 paintings, 385 photographs
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Standard edition
This edition will be bound in fine cloth with hardcover and laminated French fold dust cover.
PRICE: R 395.-
Collectors edition
Limited to 100 copies, numbered 1 to 100, half bound in English Goatskin with hand-marbled boards and supplied in a matching slipcase. The name of each subscriber will be hand lettered in the front of the copy and each copy will be signed by the author.
PRICE: R 1700.-
Sponsors edition
Limited to 26 copies, numbered alpha-numerical,fully bound in English Goatskin and supplied in a matching slipcase. The name of each subscriber will be hand lettered in the front of the copy and each copy will be signed by the author.
PRICE: R 10000.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R80
All other countries: R105
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TITLE: Grass Aloes - in the South African Veld
AUTHOR: Charles Craib
PUBLICATION DATE: December 2005
SPECIFICATIONS: Book size: 230 x 320 mm (portrait), approximately 150 pages, 42 paintings in full colour, 17 pencil drawings, 28 distribution maps
Print run will be limited to 2000 copies, including Sponsors, Collectors and Presentation copies.
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EDITIONS:
Standard edition - ISBN 1-919766-41-3
This edition will be bound in fine cloth with hardcover and laminated French fold dust cover, in a cloth-covered slipcase.
PRICE: R 795.-
Collectors edition - ISBN 1-919766-40-5
Limited to 50 copies, numbered 11 to 60, half bound in English Goatskin with hand-marbled board and supplied in a matching slipcase. The name of each subscriber will be hand-lettered in the front of the copy and each copy will be signed by the author and the artists. Collectors will receive a numbered print of the combined painting and drawing by Gillian Condy and Murray Ralfe featuring Aloe woolliana in habitat, signed by the artists.
PRICE: R 5000.-
Sponsors edition - ISBN 1-919766-39-1
Limited to 10 copies, numbered 1 to 10, three quarter-bound in English Goatskin with handmarbled boards and supplied in a matching slipcase. The name of each subscriber will be hand-lettered in the front of the copy and each copy will be signed by the author and the artists. Each Sponsors copy is accompanied by an original painting of a grass aloe painted in habitat by botanical artist Gillian Condy
PRICE: R 25000.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R50
All other countries: R105
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TITLE: Gladiolus in Tropical Africa
Author: Peter Goldblatt
PRICE: SAR (South African Rand) 175.- exclusive postage
Postage and packing: South Africa: R35
All other countries: R130
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The book is extensively illustrated with 41 color plates, 61 drawings by the internationally recognized botanist and botanical artist, John C. Manning, and 85 distribution maps.
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TITLE: Stapeliads of Southern Africa & Madagascar
Author: Peter V. Bruyns
PRICE: Please check on detailed info page
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This important and long awaited two-volume monograph deals with the soouthern representatives of the fascinating group of succulent plants known as stapeliads. It is the only monograph on the topic published in the last 68 years.
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TITLE: IN THE PRESENCE OF Gary Player
Photographer: Forrest Beaumont
PRICE: SAR (South African Rand) 230.- exclusive postage
Postage and packing: South Africa: R45
All other countries: R95
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Gary Player needs no introduction as a golfer who has achieved every pinnacle in the game.
This book gives some insight into Gary Player the golfer, family man, fitness fanatic and horse breeder. To produce the book, a photographic record of time spent with Gary Player
spanning the Presidents Cup and New Year 2004, the author was generously
invited to spend a month with the Player family at home, on the golf course,
and at the Player farm. Thus was born In the Presence of Gary Player.
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TITLE: Cotyledon and Tylecodon
AUTHORS: Ernst van Jaarsveld and Daryl Koutnik
PRICE: R 485.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R35
All other countries: R145
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This book is the first account to cover the closely related genera Cotyledon and Tylecodon. It represents information gathered over the past 25 years. Each species is described and illustrated by means of watercolor paintings and habitat photographs of the plants.
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TITLE: The Aloes of Malawi
AUTHORS: Stewart S. Lane
PRICE: R 150.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R30
All other countries: R110
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The Rev. Lane has attempted to produce a book in which the information is accessible and useful to both novices and experts with two descriptions of each variety: one containing field characteristics for those with little botanical knowledge, and a second more technical and detailed one for those with extensive knowledge of the genus.
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TITLE: Figs of Southern & South-Central Africa
AUTHORS: John and Sandra Burrows
PUBLICATION DATE: December 2003
BINDING: Hard cover,
PRICE: R 650.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R40
All other countries: R200
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The well known husband & wife botanical team also produced the definitive work on ferns of the region in their Southern African Ferns and Fern-Allies (1990).
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TITLE: Haworthia Update
AUTHOR: Bruce Bayer
PUBLICATION DATE: May 2003
BINDING: Hard cover,
PRICE: R 160.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R30
All other countries: R120
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In "Haworthia Update" Bruce Bayer continues to give readers some insight into the fascinating story of variation in Haworthia.
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TITLE: Rebirth of Science in Africa
Edited by: Himansu Baijnath and Yashica Singh
PUBLICATION DATE: 2002
BINDING: Hard cover,
PRICE: R 395.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R35
All other countries: R125
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A shared vision for life and environmental sciences. Providing data of relevance to the World Summit 2002. An anthology of 20 papers presented at the African Renais-Science Conference held in Durban, South Africa 2002.
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TITLE: Regions of Floristic Endemism in Southern Africa
AUTHOR: Abraham E van Wyk, Gideon F Smith
PUBLICATION DATE: September 2001
SPECIFICATIONS: Book size: 230 x 297 mm (portrait), approximately 160 pages, more than 250 colour photographs.
The extraordinary floristic diversity in southern Africa is not only one of the region's greatest natural assets, but also one of the botanical wonders of the world...
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EDITIONS:
Standard edition
This edition will be bound in fine cloth with a hardcover with laminated French fold dust cover.
ISBN 1-919766-18-9
PRICE: R 350.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R35
All other countries: R130
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TITLE: Geophytic Pelargoniums
AUTHOR: Charles Craib, Illustrations: Gillian Condy
PUBLICATION DATE: April 2001
SPECIFICATIONS: Book size: 200 x 260 mm (portrait), approximately 112 pages, 28 pen-and-ink drawings by the artist. Printed on quality art paper.
The Sponsors and Collectors editions will be hand-bound by South Africa's premier craft bookbinder, Peter Carstens.
South Africa boasts a wealth of Pelargonium species including those in the section Hoarea, geophytes with some of the most unusual and spectacular flowers in the genus.
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Limited to 975 copies, numbered 26 - 1000. Bound in fine book cloth with a stiff laminated French fold dust cover.
ISBN 1-919766-14-6
PRICE: R 1200.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R30
All other countries: R130
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TITLE: Richtersveld, The Enchanted Wilderness
AUTHOR: Graham Williamson
PUBLICATION DATE: Published
SPECIFICATIONS: Book size: 265 x 300 mm (portrait), approximately 250 pages, more than 850 colour photographs and 90 line illustrations.
Graham Williamson reveals the secrets of this hauntingly beautiful area. The section on the plants is complemented by over 600 colour pictures. A checklist of more than 1700 plants is also included.
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This edition will be bound in fine book cloth with a stiff, laminated french fold dust cover.
ISBN 1-919766-17-0
PRICE: R 350.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R40
All other countries: R180
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TITLE: The Genus Conophytum
AUTHOR: Steven H Hammer,
PUBLICATION DATE: 1993
BINDING: Hard cover, ISBN: 0-620-17633-4
PRICE: R 350.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R35
All other countries: R130
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The author Steven Hammer is recognised as being the world expert on the succulent genus Conophytum. The book is the only monograph ever published on the genus. it is well laid out and Steven Hammer's entertaining writing style is well illustrated with photographs of all the species.
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TITLE: Haworthia Revisited
AUTHOR: : Bruce Bayer,
PUBLICATION DATE: 1999
BINDING: Hard cover, ISBN: 1-919766-08-1
PRICE: R 330.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R35
All other countries: R130
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This book is the latest revision of the succulent genus Haworthia by Bruce Bayer. The book is illustrated with photographs of both habitat and cultivation illustrating the variation in species between different localities. The text of Bruce Bayer's previous works on Haworthia are included in the book and give a useful reference to the revision of the species.
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TITLE: Irises
AUTHOR: Barbara Jeppe,
PUBLICATION DATE: 1999
BINDING: Soft cover, ISBN: 1-919766-11-1
PRICE: R 275.-
Postage and packing: South Africa: R35
All other countries: R125
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This is a truly magnificent book of art work illustrating 38 iris species and cultivars. The illustrations are full size hence the size of the book. The quality of the printing and paper is
excellent. Each of the 38 art reproductions is supported with a description of the plant and notes on its origin. Both the history of the Iris and the part played in man's history and mythology, from France to the Orient are covered.
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TITLE: Living Butterflies of Southern Africa, Vol. 1
AUTHORS: Graham A Henning, Stephen F Henning, John G Joannou, Stephen E Woodhall
PUBLICATION DATE: 1997
BINDING: Hard cover, ISBN: 1-919766-03-0
PRICE: R 450.-,
Postage and packing: South Africa: R40
All other countries: R185
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This is Volume 1 of a 5 Volume series covering the butterflies of Southern Africa. The book deals with the biology, ecology and conservation of Hesperiidae, Papilionidae and Pieridae of
Southern Africa. The book covers in detail the feeding habits, food material, reproduction and distribution of the above species. The feature of the book is that the specimens illustrated are all living butterflies, not pinned specimens.
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TITLE: List of Southern African Succulent Plants
AUTHORS: Gideon F Smith et. al.,
PUBLICATION DATE: 1997
BINDING:Soft cover, ISBN: 1-919766-05-7
PRICE: R 120.-, Postage and packing: South Africa: R30, All other countries: R60
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The title of the book is slightly misleading and does not do full justice to the book, an enormous amount of research has gone into the compilation of this plant list and it is an indispensable reference to succulent enthusiast's in that one can readily find the correct spelling and latest author of the species. This is a complete list of Southern African Succulent Plant names, the first of its kind.
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