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Maclean & Darroll's Ducks of Sub-Saharan Africa : Ltd Ed Folio : Ornithology
Maclean & Darroll's Ducks of Sub-Saharan Africa : Ltd Ed Folio : Ornithology
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Ducks of Sub-Saharan Africa
By Gordon Lindsay Maclean and Illustrated by Gail Darroll
Foreword by Sir Peter Scott.
Published by Acorn Books, 1986. Limited Edition. Volume 1617 of 2700 subscribers copies. Included is a laid-in title-plate with illustration that also notes the book's limitation number. Printed and Bound in South Africa. Large book (Folio) measuring 43 x 33 cm. Hardback in dust jacket. xv, 150 pages text. With a colour frontis. and a 36 further fine colour plates by Gail Darroll.
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A very good clean copy throughout. The dust jackete is very good with no tears or damage. All contents present and pages very clean throughout. No names or writing. Overall a very good copy.
Ducks of Sub-Saharan Africa covers all thirty of the waterfowl species, both breeding and non-breeding, found in Africa south of the Sahara. These species are individually described in a text that is not only scientically accurate but delightful informative, and illustrated by superb paintings of the adult birds in their habitats, as well as by some studies of ducklings in the nest. In addition, the text is embellished with attractive pencil-sketch vignettes of other waterside birds, mammals, insects and plants.
By Gordon Lindsay Maclean and Illustrated by Gail Darroll
Foreword by Sir Peter Scott.
Published by Acorn Books, 1986. Limited Edition. Volume 1617 of 2700 subscribers copies. Included is a laid-in title-plate with illustration that also notes the book's limitation number. Printed and Bound in South Africa. Large book (Folio) measuring 43 x 33 cm. Hardback in dust jacket. xv, 150 pages text. With a colour frontis. and a 36 further fine colour plates by Gail Darroll.
CONDITION
A very good clean copy throughout. The dust jackete is very good with no tears or damage. All contents present and pages very clean throughout. No names or writing. Overall a very good copy.
Ducks of Sub-Saharan Africa covers all thirty of the waterfowl species, both breeding and non-breeding, found in Africa south of the Sahara. These species are individually described in a text that is not only scientically accurate but delightful informative, and illustrated by superb paintings of the adult birds in their habitats, as well as by some studies of ducklings in the nest. In addition, the text is embellished with attractive pencil-sketch vignettes of other waterside birds, mammals, insects and plants.
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