African Wildlife Sketches by Jeff Huntly

African Wildlife Sketches (Standard First Edition, 1990, Illustrated Boards)

A Naturalist-Artist's Sketches and Essays on the Animals and Birds of Southern Africa

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: African Wildlife Sketches
• Author: Jeff Huntly
• Publisher: Ashanti Publishing Limited, Gibraltar
• Publication Date: 1990
• ISBN-13: 9781874800057
• ISBN-10: 1874800057
• Edition Details: First Edition, Standard Edition (the copyright page also lists Collector's and Leatherbound Limited editions; the barcode of this copy matches the Standard Edition).
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated pictorial boards with a dark brown cloth-type spine strip and clear spine lettering; illustrated endpapers.
• Physical Format: Quarto, portrait format, 157 pages. Illustrated with many black-and-white line drawings and colour illustrations.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: Pictorial boards with the illustration printed directly on the covers, which look clean and bright with no obvious damage. The dark brown cloth-type spine strip is straight with clear lettering. Corners are fairly sharp. A barcode is printed or stuck at the lower left of the back cover.
• Interior: The pages are clean and bright, with no foxing or markings. The illustrated endpapers, in a pale grey bird-and-wagon-wheel design, are clean. The binding is tight and square.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

Published in 1990 by Ashanti Publishing, African Wildlife Sketches gathers the wildlife drawings of Jeff Huntly with short essays on African animals and birds, among them the kudu and the golden mole.

Huntly combines careful natural history observation with personal anecdote. The result is as much a field artist's notebook as a reference work, with line drawings and colour plates throughout.

This is a large, handsome volume from a well-regarded Southern African naturalist-artist, and it will appeal to collectors of Africana natural history and of Huntly's work.

Author Profile: Jeff Huntly

Jeffery Douglas 'Jeff' Huntly (1931-2008) was a Zimbabwean artist, author and naturalist. He was born in Bindura, Southern Rhodesia, and died in Cape Town in 2008. He became a professional artist in the 1960s.

He designed the third definitive series of Rhodesian stamps (1974) and Zimbabwe's coins (1980), and later received commissions for Ciskei and Transkei stamps. From 1983 to 2006 he wrote and illustrated weekly nature columns for The Witness. His other books include the Veld Sketchbook volumes. He received a Rotary Vocational Award in 2001 and was appointed an honorary associate of the Natal Museum in 2002.

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