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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Finch-Davies (C.G.)

THE BIRDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (Collectors' Edition)

colour plates by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies, text by Dr. Alan Kemp

Published: Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, 1982

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488 pages, colour frontispiece of a Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, portrait of Finch-Davies, 176 colour plates, half brown morocco with matching marbled paper sides, red title label on spine gilt,light foxing on the page edges, a very good copy in the matching brown cloth slip case with marbled paper sides.

No 48 of the Collectors' Edition of 250 copies.

  • Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
  • Size: 4to (300 x 220 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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