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Cape Town: C Struik, (1976. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Cape Town: C Struik, (1976. first edition). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Cambridge: [Cambridge] University Press, 1956-1968. Octavo, very good set in dustwrappers. More
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, (2003. reprint). Octavo, colour illustrations, maps, softcover, slightly dog-eared. Winner in every category of British Birds' survey of field guides. This guide covers all but a few of the Western Palearctic's breeding birds, and includes information on all regularly encountered vagrants. It has over..... More
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1997. Large quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Over 100 color photographs combined with a detailed text outlining biology, behaviour and social structure of these elusive big cats. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2006. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs by Beverly Joubert. The tawny lion slinks through golden grass, stealthy and sinuous, utterly concentrated on the hunt, a perfect predator awaiting only the instant when pure instinct triggers the rush, the spring, the ferocious slash of sharp claws and..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1980. Small folio, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1970. Quarto, wrappers, colour plates, photographs, maps, sonograms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 143, article 1. More
Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1987. Quarto, colour plates by Simon Calburn, fine copy in dustwrapper and slipcase. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Spectacularly illustrated by 146 colour photographs, this book is a remarkable look at the mammals and reptiles most likely to be encountered in the famous Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater. Accessible text coupled with an easy-to-use format, makes this..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, map. Covers four major national parks - Lake Nakuru, Lake Bogoria, Mount Longonot, and Hell's Gate - as well as smaller outstanding wildlife areas. Looks at over 300 bird species most likely to be encountered on safari in this world-famous region..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, map, cover and spine slightly worn but otherwise a good, sound copy. Covers four major national parks - Lake Nakuru, Lake Bogoria, Mount Longonot, and Hell's Gate - as well as smaller outstanding wildlife areas. Looks at over 300 bird species..... More
Cape Town: Oxford University Press, (1973. reprint). Octavo, 94 colour plates, bookplate, paperback, very good copy. More
Salisbury: The Aloe, Cactus and Succulent Society of Rhodesia, 1971. Octavo, photographs. Full morocco grained cloth and marbled endpapers, the collector's edition numbered 50 to 150. This is copy 105. Issue number one of Excelsa, the journal of the Aloe, Cactus and Succulent Society of Rhodesia. More
London: Academic Press, (2001. reprint). Octavo, colour illustrations, maps, softcover, signs of use. Illustrates 480 species. The species accounts include other names, measurements, recognition, habitat, food and status. More
New York: Picador, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. An epic account of the extraordinary life and adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist Carl Akeley, who revolutionized taxidermy and environmental conservation and created the famed African Hall at New York's Museum of Natural History. Akeley risked death time and..... More
Pretoria: National Parks Board of South Africa, [no date]. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in laminated boards. More
Cape Town: Struik, 1997. Quarto, colour photographs, few minor marks, otherwise as new in dustwrapper. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1989. Octavo, wrappers. More
Gland: IUCN, 2003. Quarto, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. Slightly bumped cover. Wild chimpanzees are only found in tropical Africa, where their populations have declined by more than 66% in the last 30 years. This action plan focuses on one of the four chimpanzee subspecies, the western chimpanzee, which..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. Provides a general introduction to the avifauna. The endemic and endangered species are highlighted for each geographical region. More
London: Zoological Society of London, 1903. Quarto, three plates, including one chromolithograph of the Okapi. Binder's cloth, two small library stamps including one on the title page, corners of pages creased and crushed. The full volume of Transaction of the Zoological Society of London, volume 16, with the following papers..... More
Cape Town: Struik Publishers, (2015. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback with plastic cover, colour photographs. Namaqualand (Afrikaans: Namakwaland) is an arid region of Namibia and South Africa. Namaqualand is justifiably famous for the floral wonderland it becomes in spring, comprising some 3,800 species, of which 28% are endemic. This book introduces..... More
Cape Town: Purnell, 1972. Small quarto, colour plates by Gwendoline Joyce Lewis, biro inscription, dustwrapper. More
Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1911-1912. Quarto, 22 plates of birds, reptiles and mammals. Single volume binder's cloth with three parts, marbled boards with some damage, a sound copy. More
Cambridge MA: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1957. Octavo, signatures, wrappers. More