Calburn's Birds of Southern Africa: paintings, field sketches and field notes
by Calburn, Simon
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Purnell, 1969). 4to; original blue cloth, with gilt secretarybird icon to upper cover and gilt lettering to spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 248 + (viii); full-colour plates; line drawings and colour illustrations in text. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; trace of foxing. Very good condition. "This is a book about the watching and drawing of birds in action. The artist and author, Simon Calburn, works only from life and this book is essentially a record in pictures and words of his contact with the world of birds. Over one hundred of the species found in Southern Africa are illustrated, and there are birds from all the principal types of habitat." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12703
- Title
- Calburn's Birds of Southern Africa: paintings, field sketches and field notes
- Author
- Calburn, Simon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Purnell, 1969)
- Keywords
- Bird study. Field sketches Birds
- Bookseller catalogs
- Birds;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...