Six volumes in three, modern contemporary style half leather bindings, gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, new endpapers, minor staining to the last few leaves and plates in Volume 2, mostly affecting the margins, otherwise the text, plates and binding are in excellent condition. 303 beautiful chromolithographic plates. The copy of Robert L. J. Ellery, who was the first director of the Victoria� s Williamstown Observatory, starting in 1853, with his name in ink on preliminary leaves. Please use the 'Ask Bookseller a Question' button so we can quote postage (at cost). Seller Inventory # BROINOWSKI 201223

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Title: THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. A DESCRIPTIVE ...

Publisher: Melbourne, Charles Stuart & Co., 1890-1891.

Publication Date: 1890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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