MATHEWS, GREGORY MACALISTER. 1876-1949. The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby & Co., 1910-27. 13 volumes. Folio (337 x 246 mm). 600 hand-colored lithographic plates by and after J.G. Keulemans, H. Grönvold, R. Green, H. Goodchild and G.E. Lodge. Contemporary dark blue half morocco by F. Binns & Co., Adelaide. Rubbed, minor fingermarks. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION of just 225 copies, comprising 12 volumes plus a supplement. The first important treatment of Australian birds since Gould's Avifauna, and one of the last significant ornithologies to be illustrated with hand-colored lithographs. Matthews was able to provide figures of about one hundred species not given by Gould and many sub-species. The final volume includes Mathews' Check List of the Birds of Australia and his Bibliography of the Birds of Australia, which includes biographical details of authors and collectors. Matthews' own collection of bird specimens forms part of the Rothschild Collections at Tring. Nissen IVB 605; Anker 328; Wood p 454; Zimmer p 419; Whittell, p 490.
MATHEWS, GREGORY MACALISTER. 1876-1949. The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby & Co., 1910-27. 13 volumes. Folio (337 x 246 mm). 600 hand-colored lithographic plates by and after J.G. Keulemans, H. Grönvold, R. Green, H. Goodchild and G.E. Lodge. Contemporary dark blue half morocco by F. Binns & Co., Adelaide. Rubbed, minor fingermarks. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION of just 225 copies, comprising 12 volumes plus a supplement. The first important treatment of Australian birds since Gould's Avifauna, and one of the last significant ornithologies to be illustrated with hand-colored lithographs. Matthews was able to provide figures of about one hundred species not given by Gould and many sub-species. The final volume includes Mathews' Check List of the Birds of Australia and his Bibliography of the Birds of Australia, which includes biographical details of authors and collectors. Matthews' own collection of bird specimens forms part of the Rothschild Collections at Tring. Nissen IVB 605; Anker 328; Wood p 454; Zimmer p 419; Whittell, p 490.
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