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Auction #128 begins on 15 Jan 2026

[Roberts (A.)]

ROBERTS BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA

Published: The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, Cape Town, 1978

Edition: De Luxe Edition

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Revised by G.R. McLaughlin and R. Liversidge. Plates in colour by Norman C.K. Lighton and Kenneth Newman.

Plates in colour by Norman C.K. Lighton and Kenneth Newman. Black and White Illustrations by J.Adams and H. Grönvold.

De Luxe Edition: 660 pages, colour frontispiece and 71 colour plates, line drawings and distribution maps in the margins, maps on endpapers, full green leather with red title labels – the leather is faded to brown on the spine, all edges gilt.

De Luxe edition limited to 100 copies of which this is Copy No. 30, signed by the author

'The main feature of this new edition is the complete rearrangement of the colour plates. There are thirty-one new plates by Ken Newman. In some of the others odd birds have been changed or new ones added, or the positions have been rearranged.' Editors' preface. There was both a De Luxe Edition and a Subscribers' Edition of this edition as well as the standard edition. There were 100 De Luxe copies and while no limitation is given for the Subscriber's Edition about 500 names appear in the Subscribers' list.

  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (225 x 160 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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