The bird paintings of C. G. Finch-Davies.
Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1984. Folio, colour plates by C. G. Finch-Davies. Publisher's cloth and slipcase, the subscriber's issue, a fine copy. More
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Gamebirds and waterfowl of southern Africa: a collection of 68 water-colours by C. G. Finch-Davies, originally commissioned to illustrate Lt.-Col. Boyd Robert Horsbrugh's 1912 volume The Game-Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa.
Johannesburg: Winchester Press, 1986. Quarto, colour plates, fine copy in slipcase, the subscribers' edition. More
Turacos: a natural history of the Musophagidae.
Melbourne: Nokomis, 2002. Quarto, 26 colour plates and uncoloured illustrations by William Cooper, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first true monograph on this spectacular group since Schlegel and Westerman De Toerako's published 1860. This book is yet another wonderful collaboration between the meticulous pen of Joseph Forshaw and the artwork..... More
Elephants of Africa.
London: New Holland, 1986. Oblong format, colour plates by Paul Bosman, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
The owls of southern Africa.
Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1987. Quarto, colour plates by Simon Calburn, fine copy in dustwrapper and slipcase. More
Ducks of sub-Saharan Africa.
Randburg: Acorn Books, 1986. Folio, 31 colour plates by Gail Darroll, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Avifauna Africana: 12 watercolours of South African wild birds.
Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland Publishers, 1965. Small folio, unpaginated, twelve colour plates, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The zoological exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790.
Rotterdam: A A Balkema, 1989. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Francois Levaillant and the Birds of Africa.
Johannesburg: The Brenthurst Press, 2004. Quarto, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Intrepid traveller, pioneering naturalist, famous author, François Levaillant (1753-1824) was a celebrity in his own lifetime. The colourful accounts of his travels in southern Africa in the 1780s were widely read in seven languages. His sumptuous bird books..... More
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