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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Like New. 230 pp. Flawless book. Shatan Jessica (Book Design); FPG International (Cover Photo) (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Good+. First Paperback Edition. 152.4 X 0.62 X 9 inches; 264 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Minor shelf wear. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

4to; original blue boards, with gilt-on-navy title to spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 670; frontis. portrait; 198 full-colour plates, with descriptions to facing verso in each case; large, folding map. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn, with some foxing to reverse side; light bump to corners of lower board; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; trace of foxing to edges and outermost leaves. Very good condition. "This is the first definitive work devoted to Southern African butterflies. Illustrated with 198 plates in full colour, this comprehensive record of no less than 780 species is unique in the world of Lepidoptera. Most of the butterflies are depicted life-size. There are also superb reproductions of 38 hand-painted life cycles of Hesperiidae by Gowan C. Clark, the renowned natural history artist and Lepidopterist. The text includes known distributional records, field observations, times of appearance, amongst other interesting data. A detailed index provides easy access to all species. An accurate botanical list of known foodplants utilized by larvae of these butterflies broadens the scope of this volume. Family, genus, species and author of every plant are tabulated against each insect. Scientific abbreviations of titles of journals and other publications cited are listed separately with expanded titles appended. A large fold-out map and select bibliography complete the contents. PENNINGTON'S BUTTERFLIES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA is a valuable and essential reference work in the field of natural history of Southern Africa.".…

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[Johannesburg], Ad. Donker Publisher, [1978]. 670 pp. 198 col. plts & 1 fold. b./w. map. Orig. hardcover (blue paper covered boards, gilt lettered on spine), d./j. 4to. - Dustjacket with light shelfwear.Unnumbered copy in the standard binding.