The birds of Australia

by John Gould

$3,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1972-75. 8 volumes, large folio, original full faux leather binding, gilt-decorated spines in 8 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; fine set. A fine facsimile edition of the London 1848-69 edition in 8 volumes reproducing 681 of Gould's famous illustrations. See Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, p. 101 for the original edition. Item #58449

• Binding: Leather

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