Natural History

Reptiles of the Kruger National Park

Vand R printers 1966. no 1 Koedoe series. Kruger national Park. Cover slightly worn.

Reptiles of the Kruger National Park

Vand R printers 1966. no 1 Koedoe series.. Kruger national Park. Cover slightly worn

Robert’s Birds of South Africa

Some pen scribbles on Title page with an ink inscription on fep.

Roberts Birds of South Africa

No dust jacket. Blue colth covers in excellent condition. Very good firm copy

Roberts Birds of South Africa / Revised By G R McLachlan and R Liversidge

Contains numerous colour plates. Text and binding in clean strong condition. Spine of dw quite worn, with some open and closed tears. Edges of DW also shows some wear and light scuff marks to the front.

Safe to the Sea


Some browning on pages. Folded map in pocket on back endpaper. DW in good condition with small tape marks on the inside.Previous owner’s stamp on fep.

Salt-water Fish and Fishing in Southern Africa

Slight discolouration on front board. Minor marking on back panel of DW.

Sea Turtles

Their Natural History and Conservation. Minor foxing to front end page, sunning to top and bottom edge of front cover. Dust jacket in fair condition with some creasing to edges. Ex library with Ascension Island school stamp to end papers.

Sea-Angling Fishes of the Cape, A Natural History of some of the Principle Fishes caught by Sea Anglers and Professional Fisherman in Cape Waters

Includes pull-out map with foxing to fep’s.

Search for a Living Fossil, The Story of the Coelacanth

Ink inscription on fep.

Shrikes of Southern Africa: True Shrikes, Helmet-Shrikes and Bush-Shrikes, Including the Batises and Black-Throated Wattle-eye

Slipcase present. Book and DW and slipcase show virtually no wear. Full colour plates throughout.

So Great Thy Sea: a Study of the Oceans

Slight fading to edges of boards. DW has scuffing,and chipping to top and bottom edges.

Some Dreams Come True

Fading to spine and edges of boards. Black-and-white plates throughout. Binding slightly shaken. Back and front endpapers split from feps.

South African Birds of Prey

Signed by Peter and Beverly Pickford.

South African Butterflies: a Monograph of the Family Lycaenidae: With a Description and Illustration of Every Species and Figures of Many of the larvae

No dust jacket. Red cloth covers in firm condition displaying edge wear and staining.The spine is cracked along the inside edge from last quarter of book and is inscribed with a classification number on the lower end. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and paste-ins. Former bookseller’s label on inside front cover. No publication date indicated, generally presumed mid 1930s. Errata slip attached.

South African Frogs

In a scuffed dust jacket.

South African Nature Notes Essays of a South African Naturalist

Some of the pages are slightly foxed. Contains numerous black and white photographs. Boards show minor wear.

South African Shells : a Collector’s Guide : 527 Species Described and Illustrated in Full Colour

Consultants: David Freeman and Robin. E Stobbs. Neat copy; endpapers slightly marked. Covers lightly scuffed and spine faded.

South-African Butterflies : a Monograph of the Extra-Tropical Species

Incomplete set : Volumes 1 & 2 only. Ex libris of Newcastle Government School to the front fep’s. Some foxing noted, especially to the first few and last few pages. School label fixed to the front boards of both books. Contains several colour plates and maps. One closed and one open tear to the fold-out map in volume 1.

South-African Butterflies: a Monograph of the Extra-Tropical Species

3 volumes, published 1887-1889. Ex-library copies, all vols have stamps on prelims and title pages, pockets on front endpapers. Binding of vols.1and 2 tight, all covers show bumping and wear. Vol. 1 has water damage to fore edges of front and back covers with resultant staining to front edge of first 16 pages and map page (but not to map itself), and to front edges of plates at back of book. Slight foxing at beginning and end of text but rest clean. Vol.2 has minimal foxing on prelims and index. Index page is torn with piece missing but no loss of text. Vol. 3 has minimal foxing on prelims and last few pages.of text. Front endpapers torn at hinge. Weight of set will incur extra postage.