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4:00 AM PT - Oct 22nd, 2009

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Lot 54
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Reid Henry (George Morison, 1891-1983, bird sketch

Reid Henry (George Morison, 1891-1983, wildlife artist) A substantial and important collection of sketches of the birds of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with a few from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
c. 650 pieces, ranging from finished watercolours on coloured paper, to pencil sketches extracted from sketchbooks, most mounted in 4 cloth folio volumes, about 60 loose in a plastic portfolio, a few proofs from his "Guide to the birds of Ceylon", 1949, pasted into one of the vol., Ceylon, etc., 1936-71.(5)

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