A CHECK LIST OF THE BIRDS OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA Signed

175pp. Complete with index plates and regional distribution maps. Hardcover in publisher's red cloth binding with gilt to front and spine. Shows some light spotting to the front fep and minor paper loss along the back fep cover edges. Wear to spine ends. The binding remains firm and good, and the extensive handwritten field manuscript margins are crisp, clear, and perfectly legible.

Features a presentation signature on the front leaf from primary author and museum director: "With compliments, Reay H.N. Smithers". Sourced directly from the personal working library of G. K. Gillett, the prominent 1960s Field Director of cross-border Tsetse Fly Control Operations in the Savé-Runde Basin near Gonarezhou (bearing his clean ownership name-stamp to the flyleaf). Gillett transformed the margins and endpapers of this copy into a rich, handwritten field diary tracking lowveld avian behaviours and arrivals between 1962 and 1966 along the Runde River, Chipinda Pools, and the Mozambique border, including raptor sighting notes with conservation giant Jack Vincent.