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Description : Roberts, Austin, and successors, The Birds of South Africa, etc. SIX EDITIONS FROM GORDON MACLEAN'S LIBRARY, 8vo, The impressions in each case are as follows: First edition, eighth impression, Revised edition, first impression, Third edition, first impression, Fourth edition, third impression, Fifth edition, first impression, Sixth edition, first impression. Each book has the customary pagination and illustrations, and numerous indications of provenance. Condition descriptions of individual volumes follow. 1) First edition, eighth impression: Cloth very worn, and almost completely torn along length of lower joint, no dustwrapper, endpapers have penned notes dating from G. Maclean's employment in diamond prospecting and the early part of his studies as an ornithologist, hinges very tender, tape marks and moderate foxing to endpapers, some foxing elsewhere, occasional annotations. Fair condition. 2) Revised edition, first impression: Light soiling to pale, coarse cloth, no dustwrapper, G. Maclean's hand-stamps to front free endpaper, endpapers rather foxed, with old tape marks, binding very slack, with split between flyleaf/half-title and frontis., annotations throughout, some hand-stamps and notations dating from G. Maclean's prospecting days, other marks from his early fieldwork (such as, on verso of half-title: Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, October 11, 1964). Fair condition. 3) Third edition, first impression: Burgundy rexine clean and unblemished, pictorial dustwrapper a little rubbed and slightly edgeworn, tape marks to endpapers, receipt for life membership of the South African Ornithological Society tipped in on verso of front free endpaper, signed and dated by G. Maclean on half-title, annotations throughout. Good condition. 4) Fourth edition, third impression: Dustwrapper slightly sunned on spine panel, tape scars to endpapers, endpapers and dustwrapper flaps adhering slightly through sellotape residue, signed and dated by G. Maclean on half-title, annotations throughout. Good condition. 5) Fifth edition, first impression (the first Gordon Maclean edition): Dustwrapper covered with clear film, which is taped to the endpapers, German-language checklist to accompany the book taped to upper hinge, and family and group name index pasted to either side of front free endpaper, signed by the author and by illustrator Kenneth Newman on title page, and by the author on verso of front free endpaper, upper hinge starting, annotations throughout, some soiling. Good condition. 6) Sixth edition, first impression (the second Gordon Maclean edition): Dustwrapper covered with clear film, which is taped to endpapers, signed on the title page by the author and by both illustrators, and on the Dedication page by the Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, faint spotting to fore- and top edges. Very good condition. Gordon Lindsay Maclean was born in Durban in 1937 and grew up in Basutoland (now Lesotho) and the neighbouring eastern Free State. He had to leave school after Standard 8 (Grade 10) to do farmwork, where the outdoor life and the timeous gift of a bird book kindled his interest in birds. (from Terry Oatley's 'A Rich Legacy: Gordon Lindsay Maclean 1937-2008', in Africa - Birds & Birding, June/July 2008) The first of the volumes in this set bears a gift inscription from Gordon Maclean's mother, and is very probably the 'timeous gift' referred to in Terry Oatley's obituary. The subsequent editions track the eminent ornithologist's career, culminating in the two complete revisions which he personally authored. A remarkable provenance., Condition - , Johannesburg/Cape Town, The Central News Agency/The Trustees of the South African Bird Book Fund/The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 1951-1970/1980-1993
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