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(Durban: CSIR Division of Water, Environment & Forestry Technology for Northern Cape Department of Tourism, Environment & Conservation, 2004). 297 x 210 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. 24; colour photographs; graphs; maps. Very good condition. Uncommon. "The Northern Cape Department of Tourism, Environment & Conservation wanted to produce a scientifically credible report that would drive the Northern Cape environmental agenda for the future. ... [The] report will become a valuable resource for decision-makers, planners, policy analysts, natural resource management bodies, community-based organisations, students and the public. The report will also form a strong basis for future reporting cycles." .
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2004 Northern Cape State of the Environment Report: Overview
by Muller, Elizabeth, and others (project team)
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Abu Markúb; mit der Film Kamera unter Elefanten und Reisenstörchen
by Berg, Bengt
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(Berlin, Dietrich Reimer / Ernst Vohsen, 3rd edition, 11 - 15 thousand, 1927). Original cloth, worn and soiled, pp. 200, photographic illustrations. Owner's name on the front free endpaper, some foxing. Fair. Includes some African hunting. Giant storks. Elephant. Photo-safari on the upper Nile. .
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Addo Elephant National Park Official Guide
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([Pretoria]: South African National Parks, 2005). 297 x 208 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; maps, incl. folding; full-colour photographs. Fine condition. "This guide is intended to give the visitor and all those interested in conservation and wildlife an overview of the complete Addo Elephant National Park. ... If you are in the Park, or planning a visit, make time to explore beyond the confines of the main game area, you will be richly rewarded!" .
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Addo: More Than Just Elephants. Your Guide to the Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa
by Urquhart, Colin, with Norbert Klages, and others
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(Port Elizabeth: Bluecliff Publishing, 1997) 0620204346. 210 x 148 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 120, incl. index; maps; photographs in colour and monochrome. Wrappers ever so slightly rubbed; earlier owner's name signed on title page. Very good condition. "For the specialist and the enthusiast there is much to be gleaned from the up to date check lists provided of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and common plants. The book provides a basis for an appreciation of the Addo Elephant National Park which can only add to our enjoyment of it." - Dr. Anthony Hall-Martin. .
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Addo: More Than Just Elephants. Your Guide to the Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa
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(Port Elizabeth: Bluecliff Publishing, 1997) 0620204346. 210 x 148 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. 120, incl. index; maps; photographs in colour and monochrome. Light curl to corners. Very good condition. "For the specialist and the enthusiast there is much to be gleaned from the up to date check lists provided of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and common plants. The book provides a basis for an appreciation of the Addo Elephant National Park which can only add to our enjoyment of it." - Dr. Anthony Hall-Martin. .
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An African bestiary
by Summers, Gerald
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(New York, Simon and Schuster, 1974). Illustrated by Juan Carlos Barberis. Laminated pictorial dustwrapper, a little creased, pp. 222, a few line-illustrations. Endpapers and edges lightly foxed. 'A naturalist's adventures as a young man among the wild animals of Africa.' .
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The African Ark
by Prickett, R. J. (author), and Frank W. Lane (photographs)
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(Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974) 0715362585. Author's signed presentation inscription to front free endpaper. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 176, incl. index; several plates, incl. some in colour; map; some line drawings. Short, closed tear to top edge of dustwrapper; trace of foxing to edges and reverse of dustwrapper. Very good condition. "Deep within Kenya's Aberdare Forest, The Ark, a new concept in game-viewing lodges, is playing a vital role in enabling man to study wild animals in their own surroundings. The Ark has given thousands of visitors an opportunity to see rare antelopes like the beautiful, timid bongo, the tiny, rabbit-sized suni, and the secretive red duiker, as well as observing the everyday life of elephants, rhinos, buffaloes and leopards in their natural habitats. The Ark's great personality, its Hunter, Lancastrian Dick Prickett, ex-forester, honorary game warden and student of Africa…
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African insect life; with illustrations by the author
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(Cape Town, Longmans Green and Co., no date, preface dated 1953). Original cloth, worn and a little marked, pp. viii + (2: blank) + 387, text-illustrations, plates, some in colour. Fair condition, a little foxing, a few corners curled. .
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The Amazing World of the Ant. A Series of Talks broadcast during 1965 in the English Service of Radio South Africa
by Skaife, Dr. S.H.
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(Johannesburg, South African Broadcasting Corporation, c.1965). 217 x 139 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wraps; pp. 44; line drawings in text; black-and-white photographic portrait of the author; very light scattered foxing. Good condition. An absolutely fascinating series of radio lectures on ants and termites, by the greatest authority. The talks have such themes as "The Most Pernicious Ant in the World", "How do Ants find their Way?", "Drug Addiction Among Ants", "Separate Development Among Ants", "The Abode of Perpetual Night" and "The Succession to the Throne". .
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Animal Life in Southern Africa
by Potgieter, D. J, and others (compilers)
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(Cape Town: NASOU, 1971). Large 8vo; original green buckram, lettered in white on spine and upper board; laminated dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 469, incl. index; line drawings in text; full-colour plates. Dustwrapper rather creased and torn, with some loss; foxing to endpapers, outer leaves, and page edges; occasional spotting and minor soiling. Good condition. From the dustwrapper: A comprehensive compilation of articles on zoology from protozoa to man. Written by specialists. 44 pages in colour. Authors include: Raymond A Dart, JLB Smith, RJ Ortlepp, SH Skaife, SH Haughton, VFM Fitzsimons, AJT Janse, RF Lawrence, NAH Millard, Rex A Jubb, CA du Toit, Bernard Smit, LH Wells, Charles Koch, RC Bigalke, ARI Cruickshank, JVL Rennie, KMF Scott, Botha de Meillon, Jurgens Meester, AS Brink, AC Brown, JC Faure, G van Son, GJ Broekhuysen, Elliot Pinhey, Nellie Paterson, WGH Coaton. .
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Animals of East Africa
by Maberly, C.T. Astley
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(Cape Town, Timmins, 1960). Written & illustrated by C.T. Astley Maberly. Duodecimo, pictorial dustwrapper, creased and soiled, pp. (vii) + 211, line illustrations. Endpapers and edges very lightly foxed. .
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Animals of Kruger National Park
by Maberly, C. T. Astley
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(Bloemfontein, A. C. White, [1952], 7th edition). 212 x 140mm; side-stitched pictorial card wrappers; pp. 112; line drawings. Light creasing; occasional fox spot; a little light pencilling. Good condition. "Mr. Astley Maberly . . . has reached a position that is surely unassailable among the present generation of artists of his kind. . . . Tourists to the Kruger Park will find the book invaluable, especially in view of the fact that its size is such that it will fit easily into the cubby-hole of a car." - African Wild Life. .
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Annals of the Natal Museum
by Warren, Ernest (editor)
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(London, Adlard & Son, for the Trustees of the Natal Museum [Pietermaritzburg], Vol. IV, Part 2, November, 1920). Original wraps, very slightly marked and little frayed at the spine, pp. (235-) 490, text-figures, plates, including folding. Bookplate inside upper wrap, edges slightly foxed. This issue contains five papers: 'Studies on the post-embryonic development of the antennae of termites' (Claude Fuller); 'Observations on the comparative anatomy of termitophilous Aleocharine Paracorotoca akermani' (Ernest Warren); 'The plant ecology of the coast belt of Natal' (J.W. Bews); 'Contributions to a knowledge of the terrestrial isopoda of Natal. Part III' (Walter E. Collinge; 'Four new African gall midges' (E.P. Felt). .
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Annals of the Natal Museum
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(London, Adlard & Son, for the Trustees of the Natal Museum [Pietermaritzburg], Vol. III, Part 2, October, 1915. 247 x 160 mm; original wraps, somewhat marked and little sunned and frayed at the spine, pp. (106-) 504, text-figures, plates, including folding. Name of previous owner on upper wrap; a little browning. This issue contains five papers: 'Studies on the Carnivorous Slugs of South Africa, including a Monograph on the Genus Apera, and a Discussion on the Phylogeny of the Aperidæ, Testacellidæ, and other Agnathous Pulmonata' (Hugh Watson); 'The Parthenogenetic Tendency in the Moth, Melanocera menipp (Westwood)' (Ernest Warren); 'New South African Arachnida' (John Hewitt); 'Observations on some South African Termites' (Claude Fuller); 'A Further Note on Hybrid Cockatoos' (Ernest Warren). .
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Annals of the Natal Museum
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(London, Adlard & Son, for the Trustees of the Natal Museum [Pietermaritzburg], Vol. III, Part 3, 1917). Original wraps, slightest frayed to extremities of the spine, printed price corrected in red pen at foot of upper wrap, pp. (511-) 711, plates, including folding. Bookplate on the inside upper wrap, slightest foxing on the edges. This issue contains the following six papers: 'The plant ecology of the Drakensberg Range' (J.W. Bews); 'Contributions to a knowledge of the terrestrial isopoda of Natal. Part I.' (Walter Collinge); 'South African bagworms; notes on the Psychidae and on the genera Gymnelema and Trichocossus, with description of five new species' (A.J.T. Janse); 'Descriptions of some new South African microlepidopterous bagworms' (E. Meyrick); 'South African bagworms: their transformations, life-history, and economic importance. Part I.' (C.B. Hardenberg); 'Descriptions of new South African arachnida' (John Hewitt). .
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Annals of the Natal Museum
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(London, Adlard & Son, for the Trustees of the Natal Museum [Pietermaritzburg], Vol. III, Part 1, September, 1914). 247 x 160 mm; original wraps, very slightly marked and little frayed at the spine, pp. 106, text-figures, plates, including folding. Name of previous owner on upper wrap; a little browning. This issue contains five papers: 'Description of some South African Marine Shells' (Edgar A Smith); 'A case of Hybridism among Cockatoos' (Ernest Warren); 'On South African Enneæ, with Descriptions of New Species and Varieties' (Henry Clifden Burnup); 'On the Development of the Planula in a Certain Species of Plumularian Hydroid' (Ernest Warren); 'Note on the Occurrence in South Africa of a Termitophilous Beetle of the Genus Corotoca' (E Warren). .
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Annual Report of the Committee of Control of the South African Central Locust Bureau
by Fuller, Claude, and Charles P. Lounsbury (editors)
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(Cape Town: Cape Times Limited, 1909, 1910). Three annual reports: The Second, for 1908, edited by Claude Fuller, and the Third and Fourth, for 1909 and 1910, edited by Charles P. Lounsbury. 240 x 150 mm; side-stitched printed wrappers in each case; pp. (ii) + 86, iv + 68, 59; tables; colour plates and several folding maps in fourth report. Wrappers tanned and somewhat worn in each case; institutional hand-stamps and occasional marginal pencilling. Good. "The South African Central Locust Bureau was formed in 1906 through the instrumentality of the Earl of Selborne, then His Majesty's High Commissioner in South Africa. His Excellency saw clearly that the several colonies and territories under his supervision would benefit mutually if each were kept informed in regard to locust occurrences and to locust destruction measures in the territory of its neighbours, and that it was highly desirable, in order that the pest might be intelligently combated, that the origin and movements of invading…
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Anoplura from South African Hosts
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(Pretoria: Division of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry, Union of South Africa,1919). Author's presentation inscription to upper cover reads: "Mr. F. W. FitzSimons / With the compliments of / G. A. H. Bedford." Offprint from departmental report; 246 x 152 mm; side-stitched wrappers; pp. [711-736]; four plates. Some foxing, and a penned code, to wrappers; slight curl to bottom forecorner; staples a little rusted. Good to very good. Uncommon. Contribution to the literature of sucking lice, inscribed to one of South Africa's best-known naturalists. .
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At the hand of man; peril and hope for Africa's wildlife
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(New York, Simon & Schuster, 1993). Laminated pictorial dustwrapper, pp. (xi) + 322 + (1). 'Bonner reveals and documents for the first time the ways in which some wildlife organisations suppress facts and ignore opinions of forward-thinking conservationists - opinions that might get in the way of good public relations. Examining these organisations as no-one has done before, he has obtained internal documents that contain cautionary revelations.' .
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Australian Lizards
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(Melbourne: Lansdowne Press/Periwinkle Books, 1970). 184 x 127 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. 111, incl. index; photographs and line drawings. From the library of naturalist and arid zone authority Gordon Maclean, signed by him on half-title. A good to very good copy, with slightly rubbed and curled wraps, and a little foxing. .
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