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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Finch-Davies (Claude Gibney)

GAMEBIRDS AND WATERFOWL OF SOUTH AFRICA (Presentation Edition)

a collection of 68 water-colours by c.G. Finch Davies 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: Winchester Press, Johannesburg, 1986

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190 pages, colour frontispiece, 68 colour plates, coated paper, full dark blue morocco, title label gilt on spine, housed in a grey cloth slipcase with marbled edges.

Bound by Peter Carstens.

Limited Edition of 5026 volumes. A- Z Presentation volumes.

Publisher's personal copy lettered 'A' of the Presentation volumes with Publisher's name G.A. Winchester Gould hand lettered in the front of the volume.

  • Size: 4to (310 x 240mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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