The Lizards of South Africa (1943)

Fitzsimons, Vivian F

Description:

This edition of Dr Fitzsimons's 68-year-old but still authoritative monograph was published as the Memoir No 1 of the Transvaal Museum, of which he was the director.

The blue cloth-boards, gilt-lettered to the upper panel and the spine, are bumped at the extremities and frayed along the whole of the edge between the spine and the back cover. There are cracks at both endpapers but the binding remains sound. A corrigenda and addenda sheet is tipped in on the contents page. There are no owner's or other marks and no foxing, although the text page edges are sunned. The xv + 528 pp of illustrated text, bibliography and index are augmented by 24 pp of monochrome plates at the back, printed on heavy art paper, while a folding map, still in its original condition, is mounted on the back paste-down.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: Transvaal Museum
  • Publisher Place: Pretoria
  • Date of Publication: 1943
  • Edition: First
  • Binding Condition: Fair to Good
  • Overall Condition: Good to Very Good
  • Size: 250 x 165 x 40; 1.2 kg
  • Lot No: 252
  • Hammer Price: $150
  • Bids: 17
  • Visits: 92
  • Estimate: $150
  • Reserve: $75

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  • Name: Fontein Books
  • Address: 27 Voortrekker Street, Philippolis 9970
  • Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
  • Country of Origin: South Africa
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  • Additional Information: Fontein Books has for several years participated in Antiquarian Auctions and its predecessor. It specialises in historical and contemporary books on the Free State and Northern Karoo, and is also an active buyer and seller on commission in these and other fields. Fontein's owner, Richard Proctor-Sims, was an editor, writer and small publisher until 2005, when he moved from Johannesburg to Philippolis, the first settlement (1822) north of the Gariep or Orange River, where he opened his first physical bookshop (to which buyers and sellers are welcome), with reasonable holdings in Africana, both Anglo-Boer wars, biography, history, military history, natural history and travel. He regularly visits Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town and offers to deliver heavy or valuable books or sets to these cities on such visits. Richard Proctor-Sims retains the copyright of Fontein's Antiquarian Auction descriptions and these may not be reproduced without permission and acknowledgment.