The Birds of Natal and Zululand

(Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1964). Large 8vo; original green cloth; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxxiv + 511, incl. index; colour frontis., and forty-one colour plate illustrations of birds, after the author's paintings; seventeen photographic plate illustrations of habitat; large, folding map at rear. Dustwrapper somewhat edgeworn, soiled and torn, with archival tape repairs to reverse, and penned plate reference beneath upper panel illustration; slight trace of fishmothing to edges of boards and top fore-corner of upper board slightly bumped; some soiling to edges; earlier owner's striking bookplate to front pastedown; penned marginal reference codes and occasional annotations; sporadic light foxing. Good condition. "P. A. Clancey has engaged in extensive original research over the years since 1950 in order to make this account of the birds of Natal and Zululand and all the immediately adjacent territories of south-eastern Africa as up-to-date and authoritative as possible. No work on South African birds since the early 1900's has given such detailed descriptions of each species, and much information, hitherto available only in museum and specialised ornithological publications, has been collected together in this volume for the first time. ... The fine series of paintings of birds has been specially prepared by the author. It is hoped that ornithologists will find this work not only a valuable reference book but also a source of much pleasurable reading." .