Author: GOULD, JOHN.

Title: The Birds Of Australia And The Adjacent Islands.

Subtitle: Parts I-II in one Volume

Description: Facsimile Edition; Folio; 20 full-page coloured plates and descriptive text, appendix by A McEvey, original full cream canvas with portrait of Gould inlaid on front board encircling in maroon decoration, a fine copy.

Publisher: Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1979.

Comment: Edition limited to 500 signed and numbered copies. This work of Goulds is commonly known as the "Cancelled Parts" because they were subsequently withdrawn and their contents incorporated in "The Birds of Australia, 7 vols., 1840-1848". Detailed Appendices, by Mr Allan McEvey, Curator of Birds at the national Museum of Victoria, are published here for the first time. In his Introduction to the Cancelled Parts he traces the complicated bibliographical history of the work, and provides invaluable information on recorded copies, loose plates and original drawings.

Price: AUD$330

Book ID: 17913

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