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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Claude Gibney Finch-Davies

THE BIRD PAINTINGS OF CLAUDE GIBNEY FINCH-DAVIES Limited Edition

This volume is Subscribers' Volume No. 1302.

Published: Winchester Press, Johannesburg, 1984

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Book boxed in cloth-covered box with illustration glued onto the cloth on the box front. The same illustration (Yellowbilled Stork) is reproduced on the russet-coloured cloth-covered boards of the book. Both box and book covers in Very Good condition, no damage beyond slight spotting on front cloth and fading on spine and spine titles. Inside the book is in Fine condition and very clean and bright.

Pages [i-ix]xi [1-10] 11 [12-14] 15-311

99 Full-page colour illustrations with accompanying text on facing page. Paintings of Ayres Eagle and Narina Trogons on prelim pages.

Foreword by C. K. Brain, Director, Transvaal Museum. 76 page introduction by Dr Alan Kemp with accompanying paintings and photographs including plates of bataleurs and Damaraland Redbilled Hornbill and Tawny Eagles, and a map of Southern Africa.

A heavy book which may incur additional transport costs.

  • Size: 380 x 290 x 32 mm
  • Sold By: Pringle Bay Books
  • Contact Person: Neil Berens
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 082 899 7195 or 083 652 5694
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Mastercard, VISA, and EFT
  • Trade Associations: SABDA


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