Leonard Gill A FIRST GUIDE TO SOUTH AFRICAN BIRDS Fourth Edition 1950
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Leonard Gill A FIRST GUIDE TO SOUTH AFRICAN BIRDS Fourth Edition 1950
Fourth edition hardback of A FIRST GUIDE TO SOUTH AFRICAN BIRDS, by E. Leonard Gill and published by Maskew Miller Limited, Cape Town in 1950. Illustrated by E. Leonard Gill and His Sister.
The book is in good condition (Blue boards, black lettering on the spine which has some creasing, slight rubbing to the edges and slight bumping to the corners) with some wear to the pictorial dust jacket, which is not price clipped (some creasing & rubbing to the edges, some pieces missing and chipping at the top corner of the spine and similar to the bottom spine edges, about a 2-3 inch closed tear on the front together with some creasing, a 2 inch closed tear to the bottom corner, closed tears to the top corners and one small one to the top edge at the front, slight rubbing along the spine edges and slight yellowing and a liquid stain inside the jacket which is not visible from outside). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. There is minor tanning to the page ends.
A First Guide To South African Birds was first published in 1936. This is the fourth edition.
"A First Guide To South African Birds is confined to the birds of the Union of South Africa; to include South-West Africa and Southern Rhodesia in its territory, as is the usual practice in works on natural history, would have added considerably to the number of species to be dealt with. It is a 'First Guide' in that it does not attempt to deal with all the groups uniformly; all the birds that beginners, average amateurs and visitors from abroad are at all likely to be corcerned with are noticed, and most of them figured, but when it comes to 'specialists' groups,' such as the larks and warblers, the treatment is more sketchy..."
in this 1950 Fourth Edition of the book, a number of additional Afrikaans names have been included, many of them adopted from Dr.Roberts's book, and a section on changes in local bird life has been added to the introductory chapter. A short account of the bird life of the Garden Route has been added at the end of the book to the four other chapters of hints for travellers visiting particular districts.
239 pages. Illustrated with 20 full pages of colour plates.
ISBN: n/a
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