(Roupell (Arabella)] [Cape Flowers by a Lady] Specimens of the flora of South Africa. first edition, one of 103 copies, list of subscribers, dedication leaf to Nathaniel Wallich, hand-coloured lithographed title, 8 hand-coloured lithographed plates, large hand-coloured tailpiece vignette by P. Gauci after Roupell, occasional marginal soiling, original tan buckram, gilt, floral wreath on upper cover, folding-over case, some restoration to binding, folio, E. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1849 One of 103 copies issued by subscription only. Arabella Roupell travelled to the Cape of Good Hope with her husband between 1843 and 1845. The book appeared anonymously in 1849 with a text by William Henry Harvey, whom Roupell recognized in her preface as an expert on South African botany.