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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Horsbrugh (Boyd Robert)

THE GAMEBIRDS AND WATERFOWL OF SOUTH AFRICA. (Presentation Edition)

With colour plates by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies. A facsimile reprint of the original work published in London during 1912.

Published: Winchester Press, Johannesburg, 1978

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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, full green morocco over bevelled boards, spine slightly faded with a title label gilt, a very good copy in the marbled paper covered slipcase with leather lips.

Bound by master binder Peter Carstens.

Limited edition of 526 volumes. A-Z Presentation volumes.

Publisher's personal copy lettered 'A' of the Special Presentation volumes with Publisher's name G.A. Winchester-Gould hand lettered in the front of the volume.

  • Size: 4to (265 x 190 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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