Beskermde Veldblomme van Kaapland = Protected Wild Flowers of the Cape Province

Beskermde Veldblomme van Kaapland = Protected Wild Flowers of the Cape Province (Bilingual 1958 Cape Protected Flowers Field Guide)

A Bilingual Colour Guide to the Legally Protected Wild Flowers of the Cape Province, Issued by the Provincial Nature Conservation Department

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Beskermde Veldblomme van Kaapland = Protected Wild Flowers of the Cape Province
• Publisher: Department of Nature Conservation of the Cape Provincial Administration (Departement van Natuurbewaring van die Kaapse Provinsiale Administrasie)
• Publication Date: 1958
• ISBN: None Issued (Pre-ISBN Era)
• Binding: Publisher's green cloth-textured boards with a pasted-on colour illustration of a protea to the front panel, held in a clear protective wrapper.
• Physical Format: Small, compact pocket-size volume with colour plates, each captioned in Afrikaans and English.
• Language: English and Afrikaans

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Boards: Green cloth-textured boards with a colour-illustrated protea panel to the front. The whole book is held in a clear protective wrapper taped at the edges. The spine appears clean and evenly coloured, and the fore-edge and page block are lightly toned.
• Interior: The title page and copyright page are clean and unmarked, apart from a small toned spot near the gutter of the copyright page. The colour plates are bright and clean, and the binding appears tight. No inscriptions, bookplates or stamps are evident.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued). The book is protected by a clear plastic wrapper taped at the edges.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Beskermde Veldblomme van Kaapland, or Protected Wild Flowers of the Cape Province, is a bilingual field guide published in 1958 by the Department of Nature Conservation of the Cape Provincial Administration. It presents the wild flowers of the Cape that enjoyed legal protection, so that readers could recognise them in the veld.

Each species is shown in a colour plate, with its common name, flowering season and distribution given in both Afrikaans and English. The plates, such as that of Stapelia hirsuta, remain bright and clear in this copy.

Issued by the provincial conservation authority, the book belongs to the mid-twentieth-century effort to teach the public to know and protect the Cape's remarkable flora. It is a useful and affordable collectible for botanical and Africana shelves.

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