The Cockatoos and Nestors of Australia
Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1981 (facsimile edition)/ 1888.
Folio (375 × 275 mm), comprising a sectional title leaf, 13 full-page colour plates each with a page or two of text and a blank guard leaf, plus 16 pages of appendices new to this edition.
Full leatherette lettered and decorated in gilt; edges a little foxed; an excellent copy.
Number 102 of 500 copies signed by the author's great-grandson. The second appendix, 'Gracius Joseph Broinowski: His Books and His Prospectuses' by Keith Hindwood (7 pages) contains much important bibliographical information. The short summary states, in part, that 'Broinowski's main work, the "Birds of Australia," in six volumes (some sets were bound in three volumes) appeared between 1887 and 1891. Volume 3, commenced in 1887 and completed in 1889 was the first to appear. The first 11 plates and text of this volume were issued in 1888 under the title "The Pigeons of Australia." The following 13 plates and text appeared in book form, also in 1888, under the title "The Cockatoos and Nestors of Australia." Only a few copies of these works are known'.
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