The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision (the Sponsors' edition limited to 27 signed copies lettered A-Z - this is letter "V" signed by the author) from Cape Town up the

from Cape Town up the western coast reaching and crossing the Orange River into Namibia

The hand-colored plates in this copy are particularly bright and clean

Publisher Marius Lebon Publisher Place Marseillie Date Published 1882 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Very good Condition Description The spine is sunned which has caused the leather to turn into golden tan

39 + 37 fine monochrome lithographic plates

Joseph Frank Payne was a physician and medical historian who was sent to Russia in 1879 by the British government to investigate an epidemic of bubonic plague

The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision (the Sponsors' edition limited to 27 signed copies lettered A-Z - this is letter "V" signed by the author) from Cape Town up thePp. (i) xl, 2 150; frontispiece portrait of Adrian H. Haworth, 120 color photographs, 31 black and white photos and half tones, 24 distribution maps. Publishers original dark green morocco leather, spine with five raised bands, red morocco title author label in one compartment, two color map endpapers, in gray cloth covered slipcase with green marbled paper on the top, side and bottom of the slipcase and dark green morocco flange at the opening of the