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[TRANSVAAL] Two titles, comprising: DISTANT, W. L. A Naturalist in the Transvaal. London: R. H. Porter, 1892. First edition, inscribed by the publisher to entomologist C. J. Gahan. Publisher's tan pictorial cloth gilt. Frontispiece, 5 plates (of which 4 are colored), in-text illustrations, half-title, publisher's ads. Binding cracked but holding, spine darkened, extremities a bit worn, foxing (particularly at endpapers); and LETTY, CYTHNA. Wild Flowers of the Transvaal. [Pretoria]: Trustees of the Wild Flowers of the Transvaal Book Fund, 1962. First edition. Publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. Color frontispiece and illustrations, half-title. Jacket price-clipped and lightly toned, interior fine. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson