Southern African Butterflies
by Henning, Stephen (text), and Clare Abbott (paintings)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0869542117
- ISBN 13
- 9780869542118
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Johannesburg: Macmillan, 1984) 0869542117. 4to; original orange boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 100, incl. index; full-page, colour illustrations; some line drawings and diagrams in text. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel, with crease to lower panel, and short, closed tear at head of spine; a little foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "Southern African Butterflies describes and illustrates all the butterflies you are likely to see in suburban gardens, as well as some of the rarer varieties found in the more remote areas of forest, bushveld and mountain. Species are included from each of the eight families of butterflies occurring in Africa south of the Cunene and Zambezi Rivers to present an overall picture of this colourful group." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11257
- Title
- Southern African Butterflies
- Author
- Henning, Stephen (text), and Clare Abbott (paintings)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0869542117
- ISBN 13
- 9780869542118
- Publisher
- (Johannesburg: Macmillan, 1984) 0869542117
- Place of Publication
- Johannesburg
- This edition first published
- June 1986
- Keywords
- Lepidoptery. Entomology. Collecting. Food plants. Host plants Natural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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