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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, J.M.; Cooper, W.T. (Illus.). Australian Parrots. Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne, 1980.
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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