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) Joseph Frank Payne was a

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

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