The Botany of the Commelins (Presentation Inscription from by Harry Oppenheimer)
A.A. Balkema, 1983. This publication deals with the plants pictured in the Moninckx Atlas and four other books by Jan and Casper Commelin. A presentation copy from harry Oppenheimer to Prof Eric Axelson; "To Eric Axelson with many thanks and vert best wishes from Harry Oppenheimer 5th sept 1984" Harry Oppenheimer off course being the very famous south african industrialist and founder of the Brenthurst Library and Press, Prof Axelson contributed to many of teh Brenthurst publications. Eric Axelson was Professor of History at The University of the Witwatersrand. In 1938, after research conducted in Portugal, England and Italy he discovered the Padrão de São Gregório at Kwaaihoek in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. This Padrão or stone cross, was erected by Bartolomeu Dias on 12 March 1488 when he became the first European navigator to round the Southern tip of Africa, in search of a sea route to India. Item #30565
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