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THE SEA FISHES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Smith (J.B.L.)
Description:
With illustrations by Margaret Smith and other artists.
De Luxe Edition: 550 pages, colour frontispiece and 103 colour plates, map, many illustrations in the text, half red leather with light brown cloth sides – decorated and titled gilt, all edges gilt, a good copy.
Number 111 of the Subscribers’ Edition limited to 200 copies, signed by the author.
Details:
- Publisher: Central News Agency Ltd.
- Publisher Place: Johannesburg
- Date of Publication: 1949
- Edition: First edition
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 4to (285 x 225 mm)
- Lot No: 159
- Hammer Price: $210
- Bids: 2
- Visits: 54
- Estimate: $250/300
- Reserve: $200
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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
- Additional Information:
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.



