Beschreibung:

Mathews (Gregory M.). The Birds of Australia, 13 volumes, 1st edition, Witherby & Co., 1910-27, the 5 supplements bound together as volume 13, half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black, 600 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Henrik Grönvold, J. G. Keulemans, and others, 1 halftone plate, slight tan-burn to endpapers and a few half-titles from turn-ins, very faint offsetting from a handful of plates, very small chip to fore margin of plate 340, indentation to title-page of bibliography supplement, the following halftone plate and initial text-leaves, top edges gilt, modern black half morocco, gilt spines, green linen sides, royal 4to (32.6 x 23 cm), a fine set (Qty: 13) Anker 328 ('this immense work'); Nissen IVB 605; Whitttell pp. 490-2, ('his great work'); Wood p. 454 ('beautiful hand-colored plates'); Zimmer pp. 419-21. Number 166 of 225 sets, complete with all five supplements, of the definitive work on the avifauna of Australia.