Fontein Books Richard Proctor-Sims

P O Box 193 Philippolis 9970

South Africa

fontein@wol.co.za

051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032

Fontein Books was established more than forty years ago as a publisher and bookseller. Our physical bookshop is an 1881 Victorian house in the historic Free State town of Philippolis, while we now also operate from Johannesburg (telephones +27 79 546 4032 / + 27 11 783 6577).

Our 26 lots on the current auction (#74) are from the fine and carefully selected ornithology collection of the late John Laing of Johannesburg. Dr Laing was the chief medical consultant of the Anglo American Corporation and, as was the case with other senior executives of the corporation, he retired at the age of sixty, leaving him free to collect in several areas, one of which was ornithology. Together, his lots in this auction, which he acquired new from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, could easily form the nucleus for a new collection of South African, African and other bird books. 

Payments in South Africa may be made by eft; elsewhere by credit card. We offer free courier delivery to buyers' street addresses (South Africa only).

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