Author: DIGGLES, SYLVESTER; MATHEWS, GREGORY. Title: S. A. White Collection; Diggles, The Ornithology of Australia Three Volumes and Mathews, The Birds of Australia Three Volumes.
Description: Limited Edition Facsimiles; Six Volumes, six volumes large quarto; Diggles Vol. I. pp. x, 142; Vol. II. pp. x 142; Vol. III. pp. x, 142: in total 126 full page colour prints; Mathews Vol. I. unpaginated (pp. x, 182), Vol. II. (pp. x, 182), Vol III. (pp. x, 182); in total 105 full page colour plates; each of the six volumes faithfully reproduces selected plates in full colour, illustrated endpapers; each volume is handsomely bound in Publishers half grey calf, titles lettered in silver on front boards, each limited to 500 numbered copies, small 1cm pen mark to spine of one volume, otherwise a near fine set. State Publishing, South Australia, 1989-1992. The original published price in 1992 for the complete set was $3500.
Keywords: Natural history birds Australia Ornithology
Price: AUD 1450.00 = appr. US$ 1003.21 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 94492