THE GAME-BIRDS & WATER-FOWL OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Horsbrugh (Maj. B.) & Davies (Sgt. C.G.)

Description:

159 pages, 67 colour plates by C.G. Finch-Davies, original quarter dark green morocco with light green cloth sides (the corners are lightly bumped), top edge gilt, foxing on the half-title and title pages and a few succeeding pages and likewise on the final pages of text and the index, some scattered spotting elsewhere in the text but generally the contents are bright. The 67 plates which are printed on coated paper are entirely free of foxing.

Details:

• Publisher: Witherby & Co.
• Publisher Place: London
• Date of Publication: 1912
• Edition: First edition
• Binding Condition: Good
• Overall Condition: Good
• Size: 4to (250 x 195 mm)

• Lot No: 2
• Hammer Price: $450
• Bids: 1
• Visits: 82
• Estimate: $550/600
• Reserve: $450

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• 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
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  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.