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The Birds of Natal and Zululand – The 1964 Oliver & Boyd first edition of P. A. Clancey’s classic regional avifauna, written while he was Director of the Durban Museum. Illustrated with 41 colour plates and text figures by the author, a map and 17 photographic plates by Dennis Cleaver. A very good copy in bright cloth, with the original illustrated dust jacket preserved under a protective plastic cover.
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The Birds of Natal and Zululand by P. A. Clancey is one of the landmark works of South African regional ornithology. This is the first edition, published in 1964 by Oliver & Boyd of Edinburgh and London and printed in Great Britain by Robert Cunningham & Sons of Alva. At the time of writing Clancey was Director of the Durban Museum, and the book draws on his long study of the birds of the province.
The Birds of Natal and Zululand is generously illustrated with 41 colour plates, a map and 40 black and white text figures, all by the author, together with 17 photographic plates by Dennis Cleaver. Clancey was a gifted bird artist as well as a taxonomist, and his plates are a large part of the book’s appeal.
Covering the region now known as KwaZulu-Natal, from the coast and Zululand lowveld to the Midlands and the Drakensberg, The Birds of Natal and Zululand remains a key reference for the area’s birdlife and a record of its distribution and status in the mid twentieth century. The Birds of Natal and Zululand is a work that Natal and Africana collectors seek out, and copies in the original dust jacket are the ones collectors want.
The Birds of Natal and Zululand will appeal to collectors of South African ornithology and Africana, KwaZulu-Natal birders, natural history libraries and anyone building a shelf of classic regional bird books.
Condition – Very Good in a Good+ dust jacket
First edition in the publisher’s green cloth with the dark spine panel lettered in gilt; the cloth is bright and clean. The book retains its original illustrated dust jacket, featuring Clancey’s painting of a pair of longclaws, which has been protected by an old plastic cover folded and taped to the jacket. The jacket colours are good and the panels largely complete, though part of the jacket has been trimmed, there is a small hole in the front illustration, light soiling to the spine and upper front panel, and a small ink mark at the tail of the spine. The old tape has browned and left stains on the inside of the jacket and near the front hinge. Inside, the front free endpaper carries a previous owner’s name dated 24.6.70. The page edges and endpapers are foxed, with light scattered spotting to the prelims; the plates and text are otherwise clean. The binding is tight and sound.
