Australian Ornithology
c1911–1930s. Two softcover octavo booklets, 17.3 x 14cm and 19.5 x 16.3cm. Minor creases, stains, foxing, and tears to wrappers. Titles and text include (1) Birds of the Sunny South with Australian Flowers, published by Pater’s Printery, 271 Little Collins St, Melbourne, c1911. “Produced entirely by Australians. Birds by [Violet] Teague, [Ina] Gregory, [Geraldine] Rede. Flowers by Alf Ashley.” Twelve colour lithograph plates illustrate Australian birds and flowers. Held in NGA; NLA; and (2) Piccadilly Notes: Containing descriptions of many of the original drawings for Gould’s [books on] birds of Australia, and New Guinea, published by Henry Sotheran, London, c1930s, 38pp. Sixteen black-and-white illustrated process lithograph plates, and an article entitled ‘Adventures in Bookselling’ by John Gould “The bird man.”
Item #CL199-69
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