Von Michaelis, H. (Heinrich) / Allan Bird. Our Birds. 8 Colour Plates. Second Series. First Printing. Cape Town, ABC Press, Not dated (ca. 1960). 35 x 25 cm. A set of eight colour plates, mounted on stiff grey paper sheets. Together with a four page Introduction and Explanation. Plates and Introduction inside decorated cardboard presentation folder. Folder in plastic cover, as published. Very good condition. Some rubbing, dusting and age darkening to outer presentation folder. Colour plates are as new.

Provenance: From the Library of Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Field Marshal Alanbrooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke.
Heinrich Von Michaëlis (1912 – 1990) was a South African artist (painter, sculptor), ornithologist, pilot and expert in gliding. Born in 1912 in Germany to a German father and South African mother, he returned to his mother’s native country in 1937. He died in 1990.

• Keywords: Africa · Art · Natural Sciences · Science & Nature
• Language: English
• First edition
• Inventory Number: 101321AB

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