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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Finch-Davies (Claude Gibney)

A CELEBRATION OF BIRDS (Remarqué Edition)

C.G Finch-Davies final album of Southern African birds

Published: Natural History Books, Johannesburg, 1990

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Facsimile reproduction of 21 coloured paintings, each accompanied by a page of hand-written notes, covering the period 28 March 1918 to 4 April 1920.

Unpaginated, colour frontispiece, 21 colour plates, 21 pages with black and white illustrations, full green morocco with design tooling and housed in a specially manufactured beige cloth solander box with leather trim.

Limited edition of Remarqué Edition limited to 26 volumes A-Z.

Publisher's personal copy, lettered 'W' with Publisher's name G.A. Winchester-Gould hand-lettered in the front of the volume.

  • Size: oblong 8vo (185 x260mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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