Item #120746 A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos. John GOULD.
A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos
A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos
A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos
A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos

A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos

Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1981 [expanded facsimile edition]/ 1841-42 [originally published in two parts].

Imperial folio, [iv] pages plus 15 full-page colour plates with accompanying text; [ii] pages plus 15 full-page colour plates with accompanying text; and [iv], 13 pages of appendices and the signed colophon.

Cream canvas lettered and decorated in green, with a tinted oval portrait of Gould within a green leather 'frame' mounted on the front cover; a fine copy.

Number 548 of 750 copies numbered and signed by Joan M. Dixon, Curator of Mammals at the National Museum of Victoria, who has supplied detailed appendices tracing the background, content and distribution of this work plus current information on the species.

Item #120746

Price (AUD): $250.00

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