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The biography of Claude Gibney Finch-Davies, 1875-1920 : observer, student and highly skilled illustrator of Southern African birds / text by A. C. Kemp
Record no:
85160
Call no:
598.2968 FIN
Author:
Finch-Davies, Claude Gibney
;
Kemp, A. C.
Publisher:
Pretoria: Transvaal Museum
Year:
1976
Description:
33, [61] p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. ; 36 cm.
Subject:
Finch-Davies, Claude Gibney, 1875-1920
;
Birds - Africa, Southern
;
Birds - Pictorial works
;
Ornithologists - South Africa
;
Isbn:
0620020814
Notes:
"This is number 66 of 100 copies especially bound for collectors."--Title page verso.
Includes a separate folio of 12 Southern African bird plates from the book - No. 4 missing.
Includes newspaper article titled "Portrait of the artist as a thief", Sunday Times Magazine, June 8, 1986.
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