Harry Bolus - THE ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA

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Harry Bolus - THE ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA

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THE ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA

by Harry Bolus, Edited by Harriet M L Bolus and Alice M Greene

Cape Town: Darter Bros & Co, 1918

SECOND EDITION, 8vo, xxxiii + 144pp + 119 partially coloured plates, original cloth, bookplate and library stamps of Cape Orchid Society, library card paste in, light wear on boards, front board bowed, foxing on text block edges, front ep removed, ink correction on one page, remains of flower pressed between two pages, foxing on some plates, back ep tanned, 43 plates neatly re-numbered

First edition in "Transactions of the S A Philosophical Society" journal, Vol. 5 Part 1 of 1888.


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.