Natural History from Quagga Books

Umdaus Press. Species: skippers, swallowtails and swordtails, and yellows, whites, vagrants, tips and borders. 156 species in total. Two subspecies and a subgenus are newly described in this book. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs or paintings of all the stages. Some light thumbing. 397 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Near fine. Dust jacket: Near fine. Binding: Hardcover. Green… Read more about this item

Andre Deutsch. The nature and habits of these insects. Introductory essay by the Lepidopterist, Josef Bijok. 42 colour plates with detailed captions, encompassing two hundred of the most beautiful specimens. Endpaper maps show the distribution of butterflies and moths throughout the world. 126 pages. Reprint. New and enlarged edition. Condition: Good-. Dust jacket: Good. Some mild edge-wear… Read more about this item

Londolozi Publishers. The story of a dream - to create a game reserve out of a group of derelict farms in the midst of Maputaland's rural poverty. Here is the background to Phinda with a brief history of the Zulu and Thonga people. 212 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. Subscribers Edition. Condition: Near fine. Dust jacket:… Read more about this item

Howard Timmins. Illustrated with more than 400 colour photograps. The struggle for existence on the wild snow-swept summits and their place in Zulu folk-lore and medicine. Foxing to prelims. Foxing to top and fore-edges. 239 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Closed tears to top edge reinforced with clear… Read more about this item

Studio Editions. Colourful folio-size engravings. 60 colour plates. small bookseller label on front fixed end paper. Some foxing to front and rear feps and title page with a scattered spot of foxing to some pages. 128 Pages. Binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Good. Some edge-wear to extremities. Laminate lifting off in some places. Some foxing… Read more about this item

Howard Timmins. Numerous colour photographs of unique rarities and many of the common and attractive species. Mild spot of foxing to the front and rear feps. 126 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Good. Mild edge-wear. Some sunning to top edge and spine. Foxing to verso. Binding: Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear. … Read more about this item

Howard Timmins. Some of Table Mountain's unique heritage of plants and scenery. Approximately 170 colour photographs. Each species is briefly described with characteristic botanical features emphasized. Small bookseller's label on fixed end paper and some rubbing to the front fep. 120 pages. Contents clean and tightly bound. Revised edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Good. Light edge-wear. Binding: Hardcover.… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus. 64 pages of full colour and b&w photographs. The author developed a camera shutter and an electronic flash system that is triggered within one-millionth of a second of an insect's breaking a light beam to record an insect in flight. Descriptive text and detailed captions. Section on aerodynamics of insect flight and an explanation of the… Read more about this item

Department of Agriculture. Dealing with mushrooms which are common and easily recognised. Care has been taken to choose examples of some of the best edible species and to contrast them with some of the most poisonous species known to us here. 20 Colour plates. 'Erratum' note pasted to the top edge on Page 41. Scattered foxing to text and… Read more about this item

Umdaus Press. Field guide of some 1450 of the almost 3200 species known to occur in the Klein Karoo. Short descriptions and salient details are given for each plant. Covering the ecology, plants in their localities and sensitivities of the various habitat types. 2021 colour photographs. Includes CD at the rear. 571 Pages. 2nd Revised Edition. Condition:… Read more about this item

Longmans, Green and Co.. 2 small Vols: Edigble Fungi and Poisonous & Inedible Fungi. Age-toning to pages. Colour plates and illustrations. Text is clean. Some 31 Pages. Binding still firm. 2nd Edition. Condition: Fair to good. Binding: Hardcover. Edge-wear to extremities. Foxing to covers.

Voortrekkerpers. 146 full colour plates with text on the accompanying page. Includes a plate on common diseases and pests. Contains a chapter on propagation by seed or cuttings, soil mixture and cultivation. Foxing to front and rear prelims. Light foxing to all edges with some thumbing. 299 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair to good. Dust jacket: Fair.… Read more about this item

Murray Coombes. Handy pocket guide for the amateur botanist. 346 Illustrations are arranged in the different seasons and where they are most likely to be seen. Descriptive non-botanical notes. Includes 4 sketch maps: Table Mountain area; Summit Area and Contour Path; Kloof and Forest area; and Mountain Slopes and Pipe Track. Some foxing to fep. Contents clean and binding… Read more about this item

Purnell. Many of the well known species are illustrated and described by the author. 56 colour plates and drawings of 284 species covering most of the important families and genera that have conspicuous flowers. Some mild foxing to the end papers. 118 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Edge-wear… Read more about this item

Blond & Briggs. The virtues and benefits of the humble weed. They sometimes signal a need in the garden, uses in the kitchen or for illness. Unpaginated. 44 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Cardwraps. Mild edge-wear.

Books of Africa. A guide to most of the indigenous flowers of the Eastern Cape area. Botanical names of each plant are included. Special attention has been given to the medicinal use of the plants by Europeans and Africans. 127 colour plates. Map of the area as end papers. Small bookseller's label on front fixed end paper. Some… Read more about this item

Macmillan South Africa. Descriptions of every species of orchid so far recorded within South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia. Full colour photographs accompany all but a few of the 433 species. Light foxing to prelims and the top page edges. Map as end papers. 307 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Good.… Read more about this item

Howard Timmins. Fascinating information of the economic important of the various species of this interesting and romantic plant. Limited to 1000 copies. Numerous b&w photographs. 62 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Edge-wear to extremities. Some light soiling to edges of rear cover. Binding: Hardcover. A few specks… Read more about this item

The Department of Nature and Environmental Conservation. Guidebook with 173 bright colourful illustrations. English and Afrikaans descriptions. Index of botanical and common names. Map of the area on the rear end papers. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Softcover. Some light sunning to spine.

Pearston Publications. Text: Afrikaans / English. A practical, interesting handbook of 50 of the more interesting grazing plants of the Karoo and neighbouring territories. Identified and documented from the practical farming point of view. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Thick cardwraps with light edge-wear.