Zoology of New Holland

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Fine condition - like new. Deluxe edition - number 81 of only 90 numbered copies. With twelve full page colour plates by James Sowerby. Bound half leather over blue cloth boards. Includes separate blind-stamped box of plates numbers 81/200. All housed in a separate original cardboard box. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 218. 33pages + plates. The first book published on Australian fauna and one of the rarest Australian colour-plate books. Exquisite hand-coloured engravings.

Product Info

Publisher: Friends of State Library of South Australia

Year: 1998[1794]

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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