Finch-Davies, Claude Gibney.

The biography of Claude Gibney Finch-Davies 1875-1920. Observer, student and higly skilled illustrator of Southern African birds.

Pretora, 1976. 33 pp. Plts. Buckram. - Covers slightly spotted, title-page with light foxing.

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Book number: 189259

Keywords: Birds Africa Vogels Afrika

Finch-Davies, C.G. & Kemp, A.C.

The Birds of Prey of Southern Africa

Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 1980; Johannesburg, Winchester Press; 339pp.; Conditie: Goed; col. frontisp. and 140 full-p. col. ills. by C.G. FINCH-DAVIES, printed in a lim. numb. ed.(this is number 1600/1726), orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr., 4to. Hardcover with dust jacket in carton box; Engels; ISBN10: 0620045787, ISBN13: 9780620045780

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Book number: 224605

Catalogue: Fauna/Roofvogels

Keywords: Roofvogels en uilen

Finch-Davies, Claude Gibney

A Celebration of Birds: C.G. Finch-Davies’s Final Album of Southern African Birds (the Collector’s edition limited to 200 numbered copies)

Johannesburg, South Africa: Natural History Books, 1990. Limited edition. Pp. (15), (42), 21 full page color plates from paintings by C.G. Finch-Davies, each accompanied by a page of hand-written notes in facsimile, covering the period 28 March 1918 to 4 April 1920, pp. 21 (descriptions of birds), (10, index). One-half brown leather over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, housed in a beige cloth-covered and leather-tipped slipcase, as issued, sm 4to (7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches). This is the Collector’s edition limited to 200 numbered copies, this volume is no. 93 of the edition. The name of the original subscriber, Maude de Matteis, is neatly printed on the limitation page by the editor. Her name also appears in the printed list of subscribers for the Collector’s edition at the end of the volume. A fine copy in a fine slipcase..

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Book number: 9752

Catalogue: Ornithology