The birds of west and equatorial Africa.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. Octavo, 30 colour plates and other illustrations. Publisher's cloth, some light flecking, lacks dustwrappers, owner's stamp, a bright copy. More
BIRDS - Africa
A field guide to birds of the Gambia and Senegal.
Mountfield: Pica Press, 1997. Octavo, 48 colour plates, maps, signature, very good copy in laminated boards. This small and accessible country shelters a great many Western Palearctic migrants between September to April, as well as having a significant list of resident West African birds. The first field guide to this..... More
The birds of Nyasaland: being a classified list of the species recorded for the Nyasaland Protectorate up to the year 1930, with brief descriptions and field notes, and a map.
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1930. Octavo, folding map. Publisher's light blue cloth, a very good copy. Sir Charles Frederic Belcher 1876-1970) , lawyer, British colonial jurist, and amateur ornithologist was born in Geelong. He was a founding member of the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club, the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union..... More
The birds of Zambia.
London: Collins, 1971. Octavo, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
To Africa with the migratory birds.
London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Birds of Western Africa.
London: Christopher Helm, 2001. Large octavo, 147 colour plates, maps, very good copy in dustwrapper. This outstanding new handbook covers 1285 species occurring in the western countries of Africa: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Rio Muni, Gabon, Congo, Central African..... More
Catalogue of Sudan birds, based on the Collection in the Sudan Government Museum (Natural History).
Khartoum: Sudan Government Museum (Natural History), 1926-1931. Octavo, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. Part one: Struthionidae to Picidae. Part two: Alaudidae to Fringillidae. More
South African red data book- birds.
South Africa, South African National Scientific Programmes, 1984. Quarto, maps, softcover, slight damamge. More
The breeding seasons of East African birds.
Nairobi: East Africa Natural History Society, 1980. Octavo, maps, graphs, publisher's boards. More
Birds of the African waterside.
London: Collins, 1979. Folio, unpaginated, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The birds of Africa, volume one: Ostrich to falcons.
London: Academic Press, (1982. first edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The birds of Africa, volume one: Ostrich to falcons.
London: Academic Press, (1983. second edition). Quarto, colour plates, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Handsomely produced and illustrated, this excellent series is the standard work on the birds of Africa. More
The birds of Africa, volume six: Picathartes to Oxpeckers.
London: Academic Press, 2000. Quarto, 36 colour plates by Martin Woodcock, maps, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-author reference with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings, detailed line drawings..... More
The birds of Africa, volume three: Parrots to woodpeckers.
London: Academic Press, 1988. Quarto, colour plates, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The birds of Africa, volume two: Guinea fowl to doves.
London: Academic Press, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The birds of Africa, volume five: Thrushes to puffback flycatchers.
London: Academic Press, 1997. Quarto, colour plates, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Nocturnal birds of Southern Africa.
Pietermaritzburg: Author, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Brings the largely unseen world of night birds to the reader in the pages of this photographic guide, the first to cover the full spectrum of the owls, nightjars, night herons, thick-knees, coursers, the bat hawk and many other species in detail..... More
Birds of the Sudan: their identification and distribution.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1955. Octavo, colour plates and other illustrations by D. M. Reid Henry, folding map, signature, slightly chipped dustwrapper. More
The birds of Togo: an annotated checklist.
Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 1996. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. BOU Checklist 14. Introductory chapters cover the geology and topography, geography, climate and vegetation, plus breeding, migration, conservation and zoogeography. The bulk of the book comprises the systematic list covering all 624 species reliably recorded in this West Afriacn country..... More
The birds of Natal and Zululand.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1964. Octavo, 41 colour plates, photographs, folding map, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Key forests for threatened birds in Africa.
Cambridge: International Council for Bird Preservation, 1988. paperback, illustrations. Internationl Council for Bird Preservation Monograph No. 3. More
Threatened birds of Africa and related islands: the ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book, part one.
Cambridge: International Council for Bird Preservation, (1985. third edition). Octavo, 12 colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. volume two 24638. More
The birds of Mount Nimba, Liberia.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1986. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, text illustrations. More
Studies of Mascarene Island birds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in laminated boards. More