Buy this book on-line Pennington, Ken, with C.G.C. Dickson and D.M. Kroon : Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa(Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1978) 0949937487 ISBN 0949937487
Bookplate of renowned botanist Helen J. Vanderplank to front free endpaper. 4to; original blue boards, with gilt-on-navy title to spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. 670; frontis. portrait; 198 full-colour plates, with descriptions to facing verso in each case; large, folding map. Light wear to head and tail of dustwrapper's spine panel, with discreet archival tape repairs to reverse; bottom edges of boards very lightly rubbed. Near fine 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." Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Pennington, Ken, with C.G.C. Dickson and D.M. Kroon : Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, out of print books, livres illustrées, antiquarian books and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |