The Birds of Australia [with Supplements]

A$40,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

With hand-coloured plates . London : Witherby Co. [later H. F. G. Witherby], 1910-1936. Seventy-five Parts and five Supplements (published between 1910 and 1925) bound in thirteen uniform volumes, thick quartos (360 mm tall), half crushed morocco over buckram by Walter Haydon of Norwich (his original signed binder s receipt pasted on to the front pastedown, dated 7 June 1926, made out to the original owner Fred. L. Benney, Queensland, Australia, for the amount of 17.8.0); spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, lettered in gilt with volume numbers and dates of publication; edges a little rubbed, cloth a little flecked; top edges gilt, others uncut; marbled endpapers, original green paper wrappers bound in to the end of each volume (some with Benney s signature), cancellation notes and replacement pages, instruction slips to the binder, armorial bookplates for Benney to endpapers, original purchase receipts signed by Witherby made out to Benney tipped in on preliminary blanks; some plates and pages with related photographs, manuscript notes, and clippings neatly tipped in recto or verso which relate to the species illustrated; with a total of 678 fine hand-coloured plates plus monochrome plates. Limited to 225 numbered sets, this is copy number 7, with the original purchase receipts for the volumes made out to Benney by Witherby, dated 1913 and 1927, bound into the preliminaries. [Together with]: The Birds of Norfolk Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian Sout

• Binding: Hardcover

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