Catalogue 43: Natural History

André (Eugène)

NATURALIST IN THE GUIANAS, 1904

310 pages, 8vo (230 x 150 mm), frontispiece and 32 photographic plates, two colour plates of birds, folding map showing the route ...

R900

Baker (E.C. Stuart)

INDIAN DUCKS AND THEIR ALLIES, 1908

292 pages, tall 8vo (270 x190mm), 30 colour plates - chromolithographs ? working loose at the front and back hinges, light foxing, ...

R2,000

Baker (H.A.) & Oliver (E.G.H.)

ERICAS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, No date (ca 1967)

lxvi+180 pages, 4to (280 x210mm), colour photographic frontispiece - Erica Tumida growing at 5,000 ft on a mountain in the Cold ...

R1,500

Fitzsimons (V.F.M.)

SNAKES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1962

423 pages, 4to (285 x 230 mm), colour frontispiece, 73 colour plates, 43 black & white illustrations, range maps, mustard brown ...

R950

Horsbrugh (Maj. B.) & Davies (Sgt. C.G.)

GAME-BIRDS & WATER-FOWL OF SOUTH AFRICA, March - December 1912

159 pages, 4to (250 x 195 mm), 67 colour plates by C.G. Finch-Davies, original quarter dark green morocco with light green cloth ...

R5,000

Journal

ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Volume XXI, 1925 -1927

1065 pages, thick 8vo (250 x 165 mm), numerous line drawings, but lacking the 37 plates called for, recent mottled leather with ...

R750

Layard (E.L.)

BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1867

382 + xxi pages, 8vo (220 x 145 mm), frontispiece, some notes in pen in margins not affecting text (mainly observations about Natal ...

R4,000

Lynn-Allen (B.G.)

SHOT-GUN AND SUNLIGHT, 1951

416 pages, 8vo (220 x150mm), frontispiece, map on back end papers, 8 full page black and white plates, 1 black and white ...

R750

Schrauwen (J.)

WEST COAST, 1991

204 pages, large 4to (300 x 280 mm), numerous illustrations throughout, standard edition, blue cloth titled gilt on the spine, a ...

R750

Sclater (W.L.)

SYSTEMA AVIUM AETHIOPICARUM, 1924 and 1930

2 volumes, 922 pages (continuous pagination), 8vo (230 x150mm), foxing on the preliminary and end pages and page edges, mainly in ...

R750

Smithers (R.H.N.)

LAND MAMMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1986

229 pages, 8vo (220 x 143 mm), 56 colour plates, distribution maps, quarter blue leather with red title label gilt on spine, ...

R1,250

Tree Society of Southern Africa

TREES AND SHRUBS OT THE WITWATERSRAND, 1974

309 pages, 8vo (220 x140mm), 8 colour and numerous black and white plates, red cloth titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in ...

R450

Wood (William)

ZOOGRAPHY, 1807

3 volumes: I. viii + 572. II. viii,+ 618. III. vii + 612 pages,Royal 8vo (285 x 190 mm), 60 aquatint plates ? ?Designed by William ...

R7,500

[Albany Museum]

GUIDE TO THE VERTERBRATE FAUNA OF THE EASTERN CAPE, 1931 and 1937

256 + 141 pages, 8vo (230 x140mm), 2 portraits, 74 plates of which 15 are coloured, numerous sketches in the text, simply bound in ...

R750

[Roberts (A.)]

ROBERTS BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1978

660 pages, 8vo (225 x 160 mm), colour frontispiece and 71 colour plates, line drawings and distribution maps in the margins, maps ...

R1,500