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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Frank T. Morris

Birds of the Australian Swamps - Volume 2 Herons-Spoonbills. Signed and numbered 29 of 500 copies.

Published: Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne - Australia, 1981. ISBN 0 7018 1045 9

Edition: First Limited Edition

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A Half brown leather bound book with gilt lines where leather reaches matching beige cloth boards.Bright gilt Heron & Spoonbill vignette embossed to front board. Six raised ribs to leather spine with decorations. Bright orange endpapers as published.

Volume 2- Herons to Spoonbills with the following species featured:

Ardeidae.

Great-billed Heron, Pacific Heron,White-faced Heron, Pied Heron, Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Litte Egret, Intermediate Egret, Eastern Reef Egret, Striated Egret, Rofous Night Heron, Little Bittern, Yellow Bittern, Black Bittern, Australian Bittern.

Ciconiidae.

Black-necked Stork.

Plataleidae.

Glossy Ibis, Sacred Ibis, Straw-necked Ibis, Royal Spoonbill, Yellow-billed Spoonbill.

Descriptive notes regarding each of the species above, with full-colour plate. Also with sketches and monochrome images of birds in flight etc.

ix plus pages 123-330 with references. Signed and numbered 29 of 500 copies.

Superbly produced to the highest standard, with excellent colour plates and supporting notations and detail.

  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Overall Condition: Fine
  • Size: 52 X 37cm Elephant Folio
  • Sold By: Quathlamba Winds Books
  • Contact Person: Ian & Yvonne Halford
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 01743 361772
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Paypal-Cheques-Direct Transfer to UK Bank.
  • Trade Associations: SABDA


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