Search Results: the snakes of south africa by fitzsimons f

8vo. Pp. 550. Third Revised Edition. Gilt decorated cloth, faded & dull. Folding colour plate. Numerous black & white plates. Some old minor staining mainly at the bottom of the boards.

Maskew Miller, 1919. 3rd. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards are worn and marked.Previous ownership stamp.A few inscriptions.Foxing.Tightly bound.Revised edition.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Maskew Miller, 1919. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Boards are worn and marked.Previous ownership inscription.Foxing.A few stamps.Excellent binding.Third and revised edition.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

T. Maskew Miller / P. Davis & Sons, 1912. Hardcover. Original cloth. Very Good. FAUNA General HerpetologyFirst Edition (No date stated, Preface January, 1912. ) pp. xvi, 547 illusts, fold-out frontispiece. (Netting visible at joint of front and rear free endpapers, but the binding is sound.) No dustjacket, gilt titles.A very handsome copy of this classic herpetology title!   Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover. Original cloth Very Good

(Cape Town: T. Maskew Miller / Durban: P. Davis & Sons, 1912). Demy 8vo; rebound in blue cloth, with cloth of original gilt pictorial upper cover and of backstrip laid down; pp. xvi + 547 + (i); frontis. portrait; photographs. Cloth somewhat rubbed and dull; trace of old white code to backstrip; moderate foxing throughout; earlier owner's intials on half-title and accession code in pencil crayon on title page; occasional soiling and underlining. Second and revised edition of this South African herpetology classic. (SABIB 2, p. 252) "FitzSimons's deep interest in snakes, first stimulated in Natal, was continued throughout his life. At first he exhibited a few snakes in glass-fronted cases and these live exhibits were continued once the museum was established in Bird Street. In 1918 he founded a snake park which was the first in Africa and second in the world and in 1925 a larger and more elaborate park was constructed, the concept being entirely his. ... As an authority on the… Read More

Maskew Miller / P Davis, 1912. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Publication year taken from preface. The boards are a bit marked and worn. Netting visible but the binding is sound. Includes the chart adjacent to the title page. Damp rippling and initials to the vertical page edges. Possibly 1st.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

T Maskew Miller, 1912. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Rather marked and worn. Repaired binding.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

4 cnrs VERY slightly worn; head & tail of spine somewhat frittered but restored. All pages uniformly and somewhat tanned. Titles on spine and front are bright but the gilt snake's head is re-worked. Fold-out col illustration of snakes is complete but, as a preventative measure, the folds have been strengthened on verso with non-staining "Magic "tape; one older tear, 58mm, has been repaired with " Sello " tape which has stained. 2 pages internally were torn in the margins by careless opening and have been closed. xvi plus 550 pp plus 1 page advert for Snakebite Outfit. Includes Addenda; (additional) b&w photog plates - "Figs A to Z"; Index, Index to Addenda and Index to illustrations in text, of which there are 171 b&w photos. (There is a note to the effect that some of plates A to Z were not placed correctly in the text due to cost. This is understandable since it would have meant a complete resetting of the type. ) The date of 1919 comes from the author's Preface. This is clearly a revised and… Read More

T. Maskew Miller / P. Davis & Sons. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. No date stated, Preface January, 1912. There is gilt on the spine and gilt decoration to the front of the book. Publication of 547 pages. Frontispiece in color. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, minor marks and edge worn. There are minor marks on the block of the book. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. Very good indeed, considering the age of the book. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

T Maskew Miller, Cape Town / Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1919. Third Edition (revised). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed. 559 pages (complete). Almost certainly signed by Fitzsimons on the half-title page (December 1941). A benign copy. The boards have some shelving wear about the corners, edges, seams. They are scuffed and a little marked from shelving and use. They are sound and sure. The spine has wear to head and foot. The titling has been rubbed away. A press cutting has been affixed to the front pastedown. The papertrims have sparse storage marks. The early pages have some storage wear about the edges, some foxing. The frontispiece has been repaired along its length. The contents pages have some very tidy underlining in pencil. From thereon the pages are very smart, very clean and clear, conscientious, competent, confident, diligent. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.