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A DICTIONARY OF BIRDS
Newton (A.)
Description:
Assisted by Hans Gadow with contributions from Richard Lydekker, Charles S. Roy and Robert W. Shufeldt.
1088 pages, many text illustration, ex-library, quarter red leather rubbed, red cloth sides, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
Details:
- Publisher: Adam and Charles Black
- Publisher Place: London
- Date of Publication: 1896
- Binding Condition: Fair
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 8vo (230 x 145 mm)
- Lot No: 218
- Hammer Price: $20
- Bids: 1
- Visits: 24
- Estimate: $40/50
- Reserve: $20
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Seller Details:
- Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Address: P.O. Box 186, Constantia, (Cape Town), 7848, South Africa
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country of Origin: South Africa
- Email: africana@clarkes.co.za
- Website: www.clarkes.co.za
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard, Bank tranfers
- Trade Association: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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Phone: 0027 21 794 0600
Founded in 1958, Clarkes specialises in Africana and general antiquarian books, prints, maps and ephemera. Africana Catalogues are issued four times a year. All subjects are covered including, African exploration and travel, missionary endeavour, ethnography, Bushmen and rock art, big-game hunting, military history, the Anglo Boer War, Boer War ephemera, Zulu War and the First World War in East Africa and South West Africa, natural history (botany, ornithology, etc.), Mining (particularly diamonds and gold), Natal & Zululand, Namibia, art & architecture, literature & politics. Also Maps, prints and ephemera. We offer an active search service for all antiquarian and secondhand books.

