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ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS, AND FINE SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES
ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS, AND FINE SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES
Ornithology; Gamebirds & Waterfowl of Southern Africa; 68 water-colours by C.G. Finch-Davis, Winchester Press, 1986. Limited edition.

Ornithology; Gamebirds & Waterfowl of Southern Africa; 68 water-colours by C.G. Finch-Davis, Winchester Press, 1986. Limited edition.

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£40.00 - £40.00
£40.00
£40.00 - £40.00
£40.00

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

Gamebirds & Waterfowl of Southern Africa; A Collection of 68 water-colours by C.G. Finch-Davis, originally commissioned to illustrate Lt.-Col. Boyd Robert Horsbrugh's 1912 volume "The Game-Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa". With a foreword by Patrick Horsbrugh.

Published by Winchester Press, Johannesburg. 1986 first edition. This is the Subscribers' Edition, in slipcase. Numbered limited edition of 2961 from 5000 volumes.

A fine burgundy cloth hardback with gilt title to spine. With printed colour dustjacket, and housed in a printed and laminated slipcase. Jacket is not price clipped. No owner's marks. Soundly bound. Just a hint of sunning to the leading edge of slipcase and spine of dustjacket.

Text is clean and bright throughout. A lovely volume.

Text in English.

190pp, including Plates. 

Dimensions: Approx 317mm high x 240mm wide x 30mm deep (in slipcase).

Weight: Approximately 1741g (unpacked).