Buy this book on-line Kemp, Alan (text), and Simon Calburn (paintings) : The Owls of Southern Africa(Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1987) 0947430032 ISBN 0947430032
4to; original tan cloth, lettered in bronze on spine, and with bronze owl device to upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper and matching laminated pictorial slipcase; pp. 184; full-colour plates and line drawings; distribution maps. Slipcase very lightly rubbed; spine panel sunned; slightest bump to bottom fore-corner of lower board. Very good condition. “This monograph on the twelve owl species that inhabit the southern African subregion has been written by a leading specialist on birds of prey and illustrated by one of South Africa's best-known bird artists. The result is an authoritative and visually exciting book that will undoubtedly become a standard work on this group of birds. … Ornithologists and collectors of fine illustrated books will welcome the opportunity to acquire this comprehensive and beautiful monograph on a little-known but fascinating group of birds. In terms of both scholarship and artistic achievement it is a work that will not easily be surpassed.” Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Kemp, Alan (text), and Simon Calburn (paintings) : The Owls of Southern Africa. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, out of print books, antiquarian books, incunabula and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |