Zoology of New Holland by George Shaw ... The Figures by James Sowerby
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1998 (facsimile edition)/ 1794.
Quarto, [xvi, iv], 34 pages (a few blank) plus 12 full-page colour plates of 'Australian birds, mammals, snakes, fish, etc.' (Ferguson).
Half calf and blind-pictorial cloth; a fine copy.
See Ferguson 196: the first book on Australian animals, reprinted here for the first time. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 218; only 90 numbered copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of 600 copies). This is an unnumbered out-of-series copy; it is NOT accompanied by the separate suite of the twelve colour plates (which were housed in a blind-pictorial cloth portfolio when sold new).
Item #88046
Price (AUD):
$300.00