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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

Roberts (Dr. Austin)

THE BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA (Subscribers' Edition signed by the author and artist)

Published: 1940

Edition: Subscribers Edition

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Illustrated by Norman C.K. Lighton

Subscribers’ Edition : xxxii, 463 pages, colour frontispiece with a tissue guard, list of subscribers, 56 colour plates, diagrams, half brick red morocco, titled gilt on the spine, which is faded, soiled cream cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, bookplate on the front free end paper, uncut fore edge and bottom edges with foxing, a good copy.

First published on 8th June 1940

The limitation page reads, ‘The Birds of South Africa, Subscribers’ Edition. Limited to 125 copies. Copy no. 15 presented to Hon. H. G. Lawrence. Signed by the author, artist and Hon. Sec. and Trustee, S. African Bird Book Fund (John Voelcker)

Published for the Trustees of the South African Bird Book Fund.

London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd. & Johannesburg: C.N.A. Ltd., 1940

 

  • Overall Condition: A good copy
  • Size: 8vo (225 x 155 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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