Ornithology; The Birds of Southern Africa, Claude Gibney Finch-Davies & Alan Kemp, Winchester Press, 1982. Limited edition.

A very attractive book featuring 173 beautiful paintings of the birds of Southern Africa.

The Birds of Southern Africa. Colour plates by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies. Text by Dr Alan Kemp.

Published by Winchester Press, Johannesburg. 1982 first edition. This is the Subscribers' Edition, in slipcase. Numbered limited edition of 1703 from 3000 volumes.

A fine brown cloth hardback with gilt title to spine. With printed colour dustjacket, and housed in a brown cloth slipcase. Jacket is very good - mild bumping to extremities and one rubbed area to spine. Intact, with no clipping. No owner's marks. Soundly bound.

Text is clean and bright throughout. A beautiful volume any bird lover would be happy to have.

Text in English.

488pp, including Colour Frontispiece + 172 Colour Plates +(1pp) portrait. 

Dimensions: Approx 306mm high x 233mm wide x 63mm deep (in slipcase).

Weight: Approximately 3.5kg (unpacked).