Natural History

Longmans’ Field Handbooks : Common Snakes


Leaves show some browning. Cover shows some wear and chipping, especially along the edges, spine and corners.

Longmans’ Field Handbooks : More Birds of the Bush


Numerous colour plates. Shows light foxing in some areas. Boards worn and shows significant tears and chips to the spine.

Marine Investigations in South Africa: The Alcyonaria of the Cape of Good Hope, Part 2

No dust jacket. Brown cloth covers in firm condition displaying some wear, with a faded, stained and edge worn spine. Book plate on front paste-down endpaper. Foxing on first 6 pages and then minor foxing sporadically throughout.

Marine Shells of Southern Africa


30 Black and white plates of illustrating various shells.Faint pricing stamp on fep.Only slight wear and tears to dust-jacket.

Meerkat Valley

Laminated boards in good condition with slight scuffing. A detailed photographic account of a meerkat colony in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park.

Morning Flight: a Book of Wildfowl

First impression 1936. Text clean and binding tight. Boards a trifle marked, edges faded and corners bumped.

Natural History of British Butterflies (2 volume set)

Vol I & II. : A complete, original, descriptive account of the life-history of every species occurring in the British Islands, together with their habits, descriptive account of the life-history of every species occurring in the British Islands, time of appearance, and localities. And illustrated With sixty full-page plates in colour, and four in black and white. Home made DW in poor condition. Previous owner’s name in pencil to the front feps. dated 1929. Pages show slight foxing. Boards show slight edge wear. Large items, will incur extra postage.

Natuurkundige En Ophelderende Aanmerkingen Over Het Eerste En Tweede Deel Van J. F. Martinet’s Katechismus Der Natuur

Cancelled library stamp on the fep and half title. The book is in remarkably good condition for its age.

Neuer Methodischer Leitsaden fur den gesamten Unterricht in der Zoologie einschliesslich Menschenrassen, Grundbegrisse der Tiergeographie und Unterweisungen uber die Gesundheitspflege. Fur Hohere Lehranstalten jeder Art wie zum Selbstunterrichte

Copiously illustrated with finely detailed woodcuts. Past owner’s name on front fep.

Norton’s Star Atlas and Reference Handbook


Notes By a Naturalist Made During the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger

Previous owner’s name and date (1946) on paste down fep. Shelf wear damage to top and bottom of spine with usual age toning to boards and spine. Binding slightly shaken with foxing to pages.

Okavango : Sea of Land , Land of Water


Contains more than 200 colour photographs with text. Previous owner’s name in ink to front fep. DW shows some wear, especially along the edges, spine and corners.

Ons Groen Erfenis, ‘n Boek oor bome in Suid-Afrika en die opkoms van ‘n eie boskultuur, met beskrywings van bome wat hier groei, ‘n oorsig oor die historiese rol van inheemse bome en houtsoorte, en ‘n beeld van die omvangryke bos-en houtbedryf van Vandag


Ons Visse

“Uit die Natuur”. From the series of radio talks by Prof JLB Smith originally broadcast on the SABC in 1965″

Ou Vierpoot : Die Verhaal Van Selakant


Minor damage to dust-jacket.

Ou Vierpoot: Die Verhaal van die Selakant

Account of the discovery of the Coelacanth, translated from the English edition. Clean copy, firm binding in a slightly chipped dw.

Passieblomme: Verse van Totius

Ink inscription to front fep. Pages are age toned. Boards show wear. Binding is shaken.

Portraits of the Game & Wild Animals of Southern Africa

A reproduction of the 1840/41 edition. All fold-out plates and pages in very good condition. This is a large item that may incur extra postage.

Prehistoric Man in Johannesburg. The Archaeology and Human Ecology of Melville Koppies Nature Reserve

Priest’s Eggs of Southern African Birds