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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Horsbrugh (Major Boyd)

THE GAME BIRDS AND WATERFOWL OF SOUTH AFRICA (De Luxe edition)

Published: Winchester Press, Johannesburg, 1978

Edition: De luxe edition

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With colour plates by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies.

A facsimile reprint of the original work published in London during 1912

De luxe edition: 160 pages, colour frontispiece of Fulvous Whistling Duck from a watercolour by Finch-Davies, 65 colour plates from the original edition, 2 portraits of Horsbrugh and Finch-Davies, hand bound by Peter Carsten in half leather with red title label gilt on the spine, marbled paper boards, a fine copy housed in the matching slip case.

Unnumbered copy of the de luxe edition limited to 100 copies.

  • Overall Condition: A fine copy
  • Size: 4to (260 x190mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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