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Melbourne: Hill House, 1988. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Rear Room Far Back Red boards [5]+ii-iii+56 plates in color with text,illus,color, pep Limited to 1,000 copies. Very heavy large book extra shipping esp overseas
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THE BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, including Many New Species Recently Discovered in Australia. Volume I. (one) [Birds of Paradise] Hardcover - 1988
by Gould, John; Sharpe, Bowdler
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- Title THE BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, including Many New Species Recently Discovered in Australia. Volume I. (one) [Birds of Paradise]
- Author Gould, John; Sharpe, Bowdler
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Facsimile Editio
- Publisher Hill House, Melbourne
- Date 1988
- ISBN 9780947352011
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The Biirds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, Including Many New Species Recently Discovered in Australia Volume I
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The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia . Vol. I (Birds of Paradise, Crows)
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Melbourne: Hill House, 1988. , 56 plates. . HB. Folio. Copy no. 293. A small bump to foot of spine, otherwise a fine copy. This book is from the library of Pamela Gilbert, former Entomology Librarian at NHM (London), and it is inscribed to her by the publishers, Bernard & Lucilla d'Abrera, 'To Pam Gilbert - who carried this book on its first odyssey
.' It was Pam Gilbert who took the NHM original out to the printers in Singpore for preparation of plates for printing this facsimile edition.. Originally published 1875-1888. Fine colour plates with accompanying text pages. 'The volumes in this series are not mere reproductions. They are exact facsimiles of originals held in the Libraries of the British Museum (Natural History) in London and Tring. They are not reproductions, because no camera was used in transferring the images from the B.M.(N.H.) originals. Indeed the originals are taken by Museum security courier to the repro-house in Singapore, where they are subjected to the…
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THE BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, including Many New Species Recently Discovered in Australia. Volume I. (one) [Birds of Paradise]
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Melbourne: Hill House, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. Elephant Folio. Completed after the author's death by R. Bowlder Sharpe. Limited facsimile edition; Binding fine, contents clean and tight, unmarked. A fine copy. Original red Japanese Saifu cloth gilt; pp. [iv], iii plus 56 fine coloured plates with accompanying text (inc. cuckoo-shrikes, fairy-wrens, flycatchers and others). One of series of remarkably exact same-size facsimile of the original in the British Library, printed by offset lithography on acid-free matt art paper and hand-bound. The Hill House series contained the only authentic full-size facsimiles of the works of John Gould - this volume is one of the original printings and now out of print. Publisher's blurb thus "They are not reproductions, because no camera was used in transferring the images from the B.M.(N.H.) originals. Indeed the originals are taken by Museum security courier to the repro-house in Singapore, where they are subjected to the…
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The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, including many New Species Recently Discovered in Australia: Volume I
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Melbourne, Australia: Hill House Publishers, 1988. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Elephant Folio: 15 - 23" tall. Very large book, about 22" x 15", likely to require additional shipping charges. Contact us for a quote. This is a facsimile edition, licensed by the British Museum of Natural History, of a classic work of published 1875-88. Volume One of a series of five, this is sometimes known as the "Birds of Paradise" volume. Hardcover in red cloth with gilt titling to the spine and gilt museum crest on the front board. Patterned endpapers. Number "0566" stamped on the front paste down. 56 full colour plates with text. Minor wear only. No ownership markings.
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MELBOURNE, HILL HOUSE, 1988. THE AUTHENTIC FACSIMILIE OF THE ORIGINAL PRODUCED UNDER LICENCE FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM. IMPERIAL FOLIO (22 BY 15 INCHES), ORIGINAL JAPANESE SAIFU RED CLOTH, HAND-BOUND, STAMP OF BRITISH MUSEUM TO FRONT BOARD IN GILT, 56 FINE, FULL-COLOUR PLATES, A VERY GOOD COPY (MINOR WEAR TO THE CLOTH AT ONE CORNER AND THE FOOT OF THE SPINE) - NUMBERED 0160. POSTAGE WILL BE AT COST.
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