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Price: US$195.74 + shipping
Description: Bound in a full green leather with inset coloured parrot illustrations on the front board. Numerous col. plates by William Cooper. Binding unevenly faded else good in the original solander box. No 622 of 1,000 numbered copies signed by both the author and illustrator. Scarce. A splendid, imposing volumes, beautifully illustrated.
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
FORSHAW, Joseph M. and COOPER, William T.. Australian parrots. Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1980.
Price: US$646.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two volumes large folio, profusely illustrated, mostly in colour; original pictorial morocco, in folding cloth box. Fine in fine box(which is susceptible to wear). The definitive work, finely produced. Edition limited to 1000 numbered sets signed by the author and the illustrator.
Seller: Peter Arnold Antiquarian Booksellers, East Prahran, VIC, Australia
Price: US$663.54 + shipping
Description: Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1980). Elephant folio. Orig. green morocco with col. parrot illustrations pressed down on front cover. Encased in fine red solander box with silver ribbon (light foxing on inside of case). Silver-dec. spine with red morocco title-labels and raised bands. (x, pp. 151-380). With 56 full-page col plates, 14 full-page b/w plates, distribution maps and text-illusts. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this being No. 554, and signed by the author and illustrator. Extensive rubbing to gilt writing on spine and light foxing on front and back end-papers, otherwise a near fine copy. NOTE: Joseph Forshaw is an Australian expert on parrots. He has produced several ornithological works with artist, William Cooper.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$796.25 + shipping
Description: Melbourne: Lansdowne, (1980). Elephant folio. Orig. green morocco with col. parrot illustrations pressed down on front cover. Encased in fine red solander box with silver ribbon (light foxing on inside of case & small rubbing to one edge). Silver-dec. spine with red morocco title-labels and raised bands. (x, pp. 151-380). With 56 full-page col plates, 14 full-page b/w plates, distribution maps and text-illusts. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this being No. 555 and signed by the author and illustrator. Moderate rubbing to gilt writing on spine and light foxing on page edges, otherwise a fine copy. NOTE: Joseph Forshaw is an Australian expert on parrots. He has produced several ornithological works with artist, William Cooper.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Forshaw, J.M.; Cooper, W.T. (Illus.). Australian Parrots. Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne, 1980.
Price: US$1153.79 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 150; [x], 151-379, full-page colour illustrations, distribution maps. . HB. 2 vols, folio (514x370mm), orig. green full morroco, decorative design of parrot blocked to each cover, raised bands and leather title pieces to spines, housed in cloth solander case (limited light soiling). Fine condition. Collector's Issue of the second (revised) edition, numbered and signed by the author and illustrator, limited to 1000 copies, this copy being #966. Vol. I: Loriinae and Cacatuinae; Vol. II: Psitacinae. Fine colour plates by William T. Cooper illustrate all species. First published in 1969, Australian Parrots, unites Joseph Forshaw, one of Australia's foremost ornithologists and a leading expert on parrots, and William Cooper, one of Australia's finest wildlife artists. Their collaboration produced some of the most impressive bird monographs of the twentieth century. [9780701810344]
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom