Birds from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Halfway House: Southern, 1998) 1868127508. 212 x 138 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 136, incl. index; colour plates; maps; line drawings. Merest trace of foxing to edges. Very good condition. 'Have you given up trying to identify those small brown look-alike birds and now resolutely ignore them? Or do you feverishly page through your field guides but end up none… Read more about this item

(Durban: Durban Natural History Museum, 1989) 0620131403. Illustrations by P.A. Clancey. 208 x 147 mm; pictorial wrappers; endpaper map; pp. (vi) + 134, including index; monochrome illustrations and full-colour photographs; some monochrome habitat photographs. Light crease to bottom fore-corners of wrappers; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Considering the small size of Transkei in relation to southern Africa, the fact… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Penguin, 2012) 9780143530442. 4to; pictorial boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + 143; full-page illustrations. Merest trace of curl to edges of dustwrapper. Near-fine condition. "All my life I have been 'taken captive by birds'. Their doings are the thread that runs through childhood, the link to people and to place. Their appearance and their presence can at once… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Acorn Books and Russel Friedman Books in association with the Vulture Study Group, 1992) 1874802033. 4to; original white boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 464; profusely illustrated with distribution maps, full colour plates and photographs, line drawings in text, tables and diagrams. A little foxing to boards, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. “In The Vultures of Africa… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Purnell, 1967). Collector's Edition of which this book is No. 46, with a bookplate signed by Clancey to that effect mounted to the front pastedown. 4to; original blue, pebbled full leather; spine with raised bands; gilt-on-red lettering piece to spine's second compartment, gilt lettering also to fourth compartment and tail of spine, and to upper cover; original clear… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1988) 0947430083. 4to; original red cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine, with silver gilt shrike emblem to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper and matching laminated pictorial slipcase; pp. 224, incl. index; beautiful full-page colour illustrations after Graeme Arnott's paintings, with further illustrations in colour and monochrome by the same artist, along with distribution maps. Dustwrapper… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Southern, 1992) 1868124185. 205 x 124 mm; pp. (viii) + 110, incl. index; full-colour plates; distribution maps; four maps illustrating altitude, regions and national parks, localities, and habitats. Lightly rubbed, and a little sunned on spine; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Birds of Malawi consists of two main parts: the first contains full descriptions, colour paintings by Kenneth… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Macmillan, 1980) 086954098X. 190 x 120 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. xii + 242; colour plates, with Park distribution maps for each species. Wrappers a little rubbed, with earlier owner's tape reinforcing to fore-corners of upper cover; earlier owner's name signed inside upper cover; occasional fox spot; trace of damp-stain to inside of lower cover. Good condition. Afrikaans text. "'n… Read more about this item

(Pretoria: Transvaal Museum, 1924). Reprinted from Annals of the Transvaal Museum, Vol. X, Part II 1924. 250 x 158 mm; paper wrappers; pp. [77-86]; tables. Wrappers detached but present; light wear; some fox spots. Good. A discussion of several taxonomic difficulties applying to certain South African bird species. .

([Centre d'Etudes Ornithologiques Bourgogne], 1970). Offprint from "L'Oiseau et R.F.O.", No. 1 of 1970. Author's presentation inscription to Colonel Jack Vincent, Director of the Natal Parks Board, on upper cover. 242 x 162 mm; saddle-stitched paper wrappers; pp. [48-68]; diagram. Wrappers partially sunned, and tearing slightly at staples. Good condition. French text. A study of the now critically endangered Mascarene… Read more about this item

(Alice: The Fort Hare University Press, 1951). Fort Hare Papers, Vol. 1, November, 1951, No. 6. 250 x 185 mm; printed card wrappers; pp. [303-396]; detailed line drawings of the species explored, with accompanying descriptive text. Lightly tanned and rubbed; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. Uncommon. Belated attention is being paid to neglected black contributors to southern African ornithology,… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Purnell, 1969). 4to; original blue cloth, with gilt secretarybird icon to upper cover and gilt lettering to spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 248 + (viii); full-colour plates; line drawings and colour illustrations in text. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; trace of foxing. Very good condition. "This is a book about the watching and drawing of birds in action.… Read more about this item

([Bulawayo]: Rhodesian Ornithological Society, 1957). Small quarto; original red cloth with gilt spinetail device to upper cover, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. ix + (i) + 175; colour frontispiece and one colour plate, fold-out map. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and rather edgeworn; trace of foxing to endpapers and edges; loosely inserted "Additions and Corrections to the Check List… Read more about this item

(London: Zoological Society of London, 1933). Ownership inscription in pencil by Jack Vincent, dated July 1933, to upper cover. Jack Vincent accompanied Hubert Lynes on collecting expeditions, and is credited with the discovery of the Namuli apalis, later becoming first director of the Natal Parks Board. Offprint from "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" published in March of 1933.… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland, 1965). Folio; original yellow cloth, with grey lettering to spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; unpaginated (but pp. 57); beautiful studies of twelve South African bird species, with brief accompanying text. Dustwrapper partially sunned and edgeworn; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Norman Neumann, although self-taught, shows a remarkable delicacy of touch coupled with an acute artistic… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: Purnell, 1970) 360001009. From the library of renowned ornithologist Gordon Maclean, with his ownership inscription to the half-title. 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in black on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. (x) + 154; colour plates. Some tape marks to dustwrapper flaps and endpapers; a little foxing. Good condition. "The author ... has made a detailed four-year… Read more about this item

(Washington, DC: United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1955). 231 x 150 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. iv + 51; photographs; artwork; tables; map. Lightly rubbed. Very good condition. "As a background for better understanding the economics of the bald eagle, this paper assembles information concerning its characteristics and life history. Included are data on range,… Read more about this item

(Salisbury: Longman Rhodesia, 1974) 0582641136. A volume in the Bundu Series. 212 x 136 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (vi) + 103, incl. index; colour plates; line drawings in text. Wrappers slightly rubbed and sunned. Very good condition. An excellent introduction to the birds of various Zimbabwe Lowveld habitats, these being Rural gardens, Cultivated areas, Natural pans, River bed and river… Read more about this item

(Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 1978) 0620005750. Fourth Edition, First Impression. 8vo; original green rexine, lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. xxxii + 660, incl. index; colour plates; diagrams; distribution maps. Some light foxing to endpapers and edges. Good condition. "The main feature of this new edition is the complete rearrangement… Read more about this item

(Johannesburg: Witwatersrand Bird Club, 1986) 0620104880. Number 13 in the Southern Birds series of site guides. 205 x 143 mm; saddle-stitched card wrappers; pp. 69; habitat photographs; maps. Loosely inserted, once-folded brochure on Lapalala, which includes a large map of the area. Very good condition. "Lapalala Wilderness is a privately owned nature reserve of 18140 hectare in the Waterberg Mountains… Read more about this item