The status and conservation of Birds of Prey in the Transvaal Tapa dura - 1984

(Pretoria: Transvaal Museum, 1984) 0907990037. Transvaal Museum Monograph No. 3, October 1984. 4to; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 115; tables; photographs; distribution and breeding maps. Dustwrapper sunned, with small tape repair to reverse at head of spine panel; bump to top fore-corner. Very good condition. "In many ways the Transvaal is a microcosm of the southern African subcontinent, positioned astride the Tropic of Capricorn and at the junction between the tropical savannas and the temperate grasslands, fringed on the west by the arid, flat Kalahari and cleaved in the east by the wet, mountainous, forested Drakensberg escarpment. Because of this rich array of habitats, a rich diversity of birds of prey is to be found in the Transvaal; no less than 62 different species have been recorded here. A growing awareness that many of these have become scarce in recent times, not only in the Transvaal but throughout southern… Leer más

Transvaal Museum, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Jacket is lightly shelf rubbed and sunned.Clean.Excellent binding.Fine copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Transvaal Museum, 1984. Hardcover. Good/Good. The jacket is shelf rubbed and edgeworn.page ends are lightly tanned.internally clean.well bound.very good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Transvaal Museum, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. The jacket is slightly edgeworn and rubbed.lightly marked, well bound.[J.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.