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"With hand-coloured plates. London : Witherby & Co. [later H. F. & G. Witherby], 1910-1936. Seventy-five Parts and five Supplements (published between 1910 and 1925) bound in thirteen uniform volumes, thick quartos (360 mm tall), half crushed morocco over buckram by Walter Haydon of Norwich (his original signed binder's receipt pasted on to the front pastedown, dated 7 June 1926, made out to the original owner Fred. L. Benney, Queensland, Australia, for the amount of 17.8.0); spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, lettered in gilt with volume numbers and dates of publication; edges a little rubbed, cloth a little flecked; top edges gilt, others uncut; marbled endpapers, original green paper wrappers bound in to the end of each volume (some with Benney's signature), cancellation notes and replacement pages, instruction slips to the binder, armorial bookplates for Benney to endpapers, original purchase receipts signed by Witherby made out to Benney tipped in on preliminary blanks; some plates and pages with related photographs, manuscript notes, and clippings neatly tipped in recto or verso which relate to the species illustrated; with a total of 678 fine hand-coloured plates plus monochrome plates. Limited to 225 numbered sets, this is copy number 7, with the original purchase receipts for the volumes made out to Benney by Witherby, dated 1913 and 1927, bound into the preliminaries. [Together with]: The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with additions to "The Birds of Australia". London : H. F. & G. Witherby, 1928. Quarto, later gilt-lettered red calf, pp. xii, [iv], 139, with 45 hand-coloured and monochrome plates, andA Supplement to The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands to which is added those Birds of New Zealand not figured by Buller.London : H. F. & G. Witherby, 1936. Quarto, later gilt-lettered cloth, pp. xiv, [ii], 177, with 24 (of 29) hand-coloured and 6 (of 28) monochrome plates. As is usually the case, the 1936 Supplement does not contain the full complement of plates; due to dwindling circulation only a few copies are recorded as containing the final plates. The Birds of Australia by Gregory Mathews is the last great Australian colour plate book and - with 600 hand-coloured lithographs - the most substantial work on Australian ornithology after the elephant folio volumes of John Gould published with the same title. This magnificent set contains the original documentation of purchase and binding made out to its Australian owner Fred L. Benney from the publisher Witherby and binder Walter Haydon, and is accompanied by the full five Supplements and the later works on Australian outlying regions. Collation: Volume 1 : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, pp. xiv, 301, with hand-coloured plates numbered 1 - 67 (the Crested Pigeon facing p. 178 enhanced with original vibrant feathers from a specimen mounted with tissue guard); Volume II : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, pp. xiv, 527, with hand-coloured plates numbered 68-124; Volume III : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, pp. xvvii, 512, with hand-coloured plates numbered 125-199; Volume IV : Parts 1, 2, 3, pp. xii, 334, with hand-coloured plates numbered 200-233; Volume V : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, pp. xi; 440, with hand-coloured plates numbered 234-274; Volume VI : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, pp. xix, 516, with hand-coloured plates numbered 275-324; Volume VII : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, pp. xii, 499, with hand-coloured plates numbered 325-370; Volume VIII : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, pp. xiv, 316, with hand-coloured plates numbered 371-399; Volume IX : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, pp. xiv, 518, with hand-coloured plates numbered 400-453; Volume X : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, pp. xi, 451, with hand-coloured plates numbered 454-490; Volume XI : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, pp. xiii, 593, with hand-coloured plates numbered 491-541; Volume XII : Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, pp. xii, 454, with hand-coloured plates numbered 542-600; [Volume XIII : Su.…

Soft cover. 1st Edition. MATHEWS, Gregory Macalister (1876-1949). The Birds of Australia. Witherby & Co, 1910-1927. 12 volumes in 75 ORIGINAL PARTS, plus 5 supplements also in original parts, for a total of 80. Folio (14 x 10 inches). Half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black. 600 fine lithographed plates after J.G. Keulemans, H. Gronvold, R. Green, H. Goodchild, and G.E. Lodge with original hand-colour, heightened with gum arabic, one uncoloured lithograph. FINE IN RARE AND ORIGINAL BLUE - GREY - GREEN PRINTED PAPER WRAPPERS (some parts a bit frayed - see below), in green cloth clamshell boxes. [WITH]: The Birds of Norfolk and The Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with Additions to "The Birds of Australia". London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1928. Folio (14 x 10 inches, with 13 ¾ x 9 ½ inch plates). 38 hand-colored and 7 monochrome plates tipped in. Unnumbered edition of 225 copies. FINE IN RARE ORIGINAL BLUE, GREY, GREEN PRINTED PAPER WRAPPERS. (some parts frayed), in green cloth clamshell box. [WITH]: A Supplement to the Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands to which is Added those Birds of New Zealand not figured by Buller. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., 1936. Folio (14 x 10 inches). 24 (of 29) fine lithographed plates after J.G. Keulemans, H. Gronvold, R. Green, and F.W. Frohawk with original colour, heightened with gum arabic, 6 (of 28) uncoloured plates. 20th-century green cloth, gilt, in green cloth clamshell box. Provenance: from the library of Herbert Hedley Scott (1866-1938), museum curator, with his ownership inscription at the head of the front wrappers of volume III, IV, V (dated 1916), VI (dated 1917); with A.W. Birchall & Sons, Booksellers and Stationers, Launceston, Tasmania, with their neat bookseller's ticket on the front wrapper of several parts First edition, number 184 of 225 copies printed. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS, including all supplements 1-5: comprising a 'Check List of the Birds of Australia' in 3 parts, and a 'Bibliography of the Birds of Australia' in 2 parts; The Birds of Norfolk and The Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with Additions to "The Birds of Australia"; and the supplement to the "Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands"; Mathews' monumental lifetime achievement recording Australian birds was based on John Gould's "The Birds of Australia" (1840-1869), and illustrates some 100 species not in Gould's work. The principal artist was Grönvold although the best plates are probably by Keulemans who contributed 163 to the first four volumes; Roland Green and Herbert Goodchild provided the parrot plates in volume VI. Born in Australia Mathews sailed for England with his new wife in 1902, there he visited the British Museum and "conceived the idea of producing an exhaustive work on Australian birds. He met R. Bowdler Sharpe, keeper of the bird collection, who encouraged him and 'taught him how to work'. Once started on the huge undertaking, Mathews became fanatical. Sixteen-hour days were spent in research, writing, skin and book-collecting: he bought, exchanged or obtained by hired collectors 30,000 skins and amassed some 5000 books covering every aspect of ornithology but, 'essentially a bibliophile', he 'was not really interested in the living bird'. Correspondence sped between Australia and experts all over the world. The first volume of "The Birds of Australia" was published in London in 1910. The twelfth and final volume appeared in 1927. His other publications covered lists of Australian, New Zealand, Lord Howe and Norfolk Island birds, numerous articles and, with Iredale, one volume of a "Manual of the Birds of Australia" (London, 1921). In 1912 he established the "Austral Avian Record", editing it throughout its fifteen years of existence" (Tess Kloot for ADNB). Mathews' own collection of birds forms part of the Rothschild Collections at Tring. Anker 328; Nissen IVB 605; Whittell pp.490-492; Wood p.454; Zimmer pp.419-421. The original parts collate as.…

Gregory Macalister Mathews. The Birds of Australia. With [34] hand-coloured plates. Volume 4 [= Anseriformes and Pelecaniformes]. G. Witherby & Co. London 1914-1915. XII, 334 p. together with 34 hand-coloured lithographed plates. New half cloth with spine title as well as mounted title of the original brochure on the front cover and with newly bound white protective leaves for the plates. Folio (352 mm x 259 mm). - Condition: In very good condition. - This is one of the last important monographs in the tradition of ornithological magnificence, published in a strictly limited edition of only 225 copies. "An enormous amount of information is contained in these volumes, in which the literature concerned and the question of nomenclature are fully treated. Under each genus synonyms, a brief diagnosis, a description, and a key to the species are given, while under each form we find a detailed synomyny, information about distribution and, as far as posssible, a description of the adult male, the adult female, the immature bird, and the nestling; the eggs and the nests are also described, and the breedings-months stated. Then follows an account of the habits and life-history of the birds, including long quotations from the literature" (Anker 328). "The [?] most comprehensive systematic treatise on Australian birds [?] profusely illustrated by beautiful hand-colored plates after drawings by Grönvold, Keulemans, Lodge and other well-known artists" (Wood, 454). "[A]ll the plates in my book were prepared from skins in my collection" (Gregory Macalister Mathews: Birds and Books. The story of the Mathews Ornithological library. Canberra 1942, 64). "[G]ive it to the artist, and tell him the attitude in which I thought it should be drawn" (ibid, 65). It "became the basis for the plate. On the smooth white surface of a properly prepared lithographic stone the artist would copy in detail the original drawing, placing accurately, by count or by measurement, each feather, each scute on the leg, each rictral bristle" (ibid). Then "he would be engaged in colouring a copy direct from the bird's skin. [.] The paper used throughout [?] was the best rag paper, made especially for the work" (ibid). - Gregory Macalister Mathews (1876-1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England. In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, and served as its president 1946-1947. Mathews built up collection of 30,000 bird skins and a library of 5,000 books on ornithology. He donated his ornithological library to the National Library of Australia in 1939. Also in 1939 Matthews donated a small collection of Aboriginal ethnographic items from Australia to the British Museum. - Anker 328; Nissen, IVB 605; The Auk 44 (3), p. 435-442; Wood, p. 454; Zimmer II, p. 419-421. Sprache: en 3002 Gramm.…

Gregory Macalister Mathews. The Birds of Australia. With [37] hand-coloured plates. Volume 10 [= Passeriformes (continued): Sylviidae (continued), Artamidae, Prionopidae and Cracticidae]. G. Witherby & Co. London 1922-1923. XI, 451 p. together with 37 hand-coloured lithographed plates. New half cloth with spine title as well as mounted title of the original brochure on the front cover and with newly bound white protective leaves for the plates. Folio (352 mm x 259 mm). - Condition: In very good condition. - This is one of the last important monographs in the tradition of ornithological magnificence, published in a strictly limited edition of only 225 copies. "An enormous amount of information is contained in these volumes, in which the literature concerned and the question of nomenclature are fully treated. Under each genus synonyms, a brief diagnosis, a description, and a key to the species are given, while under each form we find a detailed synomyny, information about distribution and, as far as posssible, a description of the adult male, the adult female, the immature bird, and the nestling; the eggs and the nests are also described, and the breedings-months stated. Then follows an account of the habits and life-history of the birds, including long quotations from the literature" (Anker 328). "The [?] most comprehensive systematic treatise on Australian birds [?] profusely illustrated by beautiful hand-colored plates after drawings by Grönvold, Keulemans, Lodge and other well-known artists" (Wood, 454). "[A]ll the plates in my book were prepared from skins in my collection" (Gregory Macalister Mathews: Birds and Books. The story of the Mathews Ornithological library. Canberra 1942, 64). "[G]ive it to the artist, and tell him the attitude in which I thought it should be drawn" (ibid, 65). It "became the basis for the plate. On the smooth white surface of a properly prepared lithographic stone the artist would copy in detail the original drawing, placing accurately, by count or by measurement, each feather, each scute on the leg, each rictral bristle" (ibid). Then "he would be engaged in colouring a copy direct from the bird's skin. [.] The paper used throughout [?] was the best rag paper, made especially for the work" (ibid). - Gregory Macalister Mathews (1876-1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England. In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, and served as its president 1946-1947. Mathews built up collection of 30,000 bird skins and a library of 5,000 books on ornithology. He donated his ornithological library to the National Library of Australia in 1939. Also in 1939 Matthews donated a small collection of Aboriginal ethnographic items from Australia to the British Museum. - Anker 328; Nissen, IVB 605; The Auk 44 (3), p. 435-442; Wood, p. 454; Zimmer II, p. 419-421. Sprache: en 3758 Gramm.…

Gregory Macalister Mathews. The Birds of Australia. With [51] hand-coloured plates. Volume 11 [= Passeriformes (continued): Falcunculidae, Sphenostomidae, Sittidae, Climacteridae, Zosteropidae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae and Melithreptidae]. G. Witherby & Co. London 1923-1924. XIII, 593 p. together with 51 hand-coloured lithographed plates. New half cloth with spine title as well as mounted title of the original brochure on the front cover and with newly bound white protective leaves for the plates. Folio (352 mm x 259 mm). - Condition: In very good condition. - This is one of the last important monographs in the tradition of ornithological magnificence, published in a strictly limited edition of only 225 copies. "An enormous amount of information is contained in these volumes, in which the literature concerned and the question of nomenclature are fully treated. Under each genus synonyms, a brief diagnosis, a description, and a key to the species are given, while under each form we find a detailed synomyny, information about distribution and, as far as posssible, a description of the adult male, the adult female, the immature bird, and the nestling; the eggs and the nests are also described, and the breedings-months stated. Then follows an account of the habits and life-history of the birds, including long quotations from the literature" (Anker 328). "The [?] most comprehensive systematic treatise on Australian birds [?] profusely illustrated by beautiful hand-colored plates after drawings by Grönvold, Keulemans, Lodge and other well-known artists" (Wood, 454). "[A]ll the plates in my book were prepared from skins in my collection" (Gregory Macalister Mathews: Birds and Books. The story of the Mathews Ornithological library. Canberra 1942, 64). "[G]ive it to the artist, and tell him the attitude in which I thought it should be drawn" (ibid, 65). It "became the basis for the plate. On the smooth white surface of a properly prepared lithographic stone the artist would copy in detail the original drawing, placing accurately, by count or by measurement, each feather, each scute on the leg, each rictral bristle" (ibid). Then "he would be engaged in colouring a copy direct from the bird's skin. [.] The paper used throughout [?] was the best rag paper, made especially for the work" (ibid). - Gregory Macalister Mathews (1876-1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England. In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, and served as its president 1946-1947. Mathews built up collection of 30,000 bird skins and a library of 5,000 books on ornithology. He donated his ornithological library to the National Library of Australia in 1939. Also in 1939 Matthews donated a small collection of Aboriginal ethnographic items from Australia to the British Museum. - Anker 328; Nissen, IVB 605; The Auk 44 (3), p. 435-442; Wood, p. 454; Zimmer II, p. 419-421. Sprache: en 4904 Gramm.…

Gregory Macalister Mathews. The Birds of Australia. With [59] hand-coloured plates. Volume 12 [= Passeriformes (continued): Melithreptidae (continued), Motacillidae, Alaudidae, Ploceidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Graculidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Paradiseidae, Corvidae, Corcoraciidae and Struthidiidae]. G. Witherby & Co. London 1925-1927. XII, 454 p. together with 59 hand-coloured lithographed plates. New half cloth with spine title as well as mounted title of the original brochure on the front cover and with newly bound white protective leaves for the plates. Folio (352 mm x 259 mm). - Condition: In very good condition. - This is one of the last important monographs in the tradition of ornithological magnificence, published in a strictly limited edition of only 225 copies. "An enormous amount of information is contained in these volumes, in which the literature concerned and the question of nomenclature are fully treated. Under each genus synonyms, a brief diagnosis, a description, and a key to the species are given, while under each form we find a detailed synomyny, information about distribution and, as far as posssible, a description of the adult male, the adult female, the immature bird, and the nestling; the eggs and the nests are also described, and the breedings-months stated. Then follows an account of the habits and life-history of the birds, including long quotations from the literature" (Anker 328). "The [?] most comprehensive systematic treatise on Australian birds [?] profusely illustrated by beautiful hand-colored plates after drawings by Grönvold, Keulemans, Lodge and other well-known artists" (Wood, 454). "[A]ll the plates in my book were prepared from skins in my collection" (Gregory Macalister Mathews: Birds and Books. The story of the Mathews Ornithological library. Canberra 1942, 64). "[G]ive it to the artist, and tell him the attitude in which I thought it should be drawn" (ibid, 65). It "became the basis for the plate. On the smooth white surface of a properly prepared lithographic stone the artist would copy in detail the original drawing, placing accurately, by count or by measurement, each feather, each scute on the leg, each rictral bristle" (ibid). Then "he would be engaged in colouring a copy direct from the bird's skin. [.] The paper used throughout [?] was the best rag paper, made especially for the work" (ibid). - Gregory Macalister Mathews (1876-1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England. In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, and served as its president 1946-1947. Mathews built up collection of 30,000 bird skins and a library of 5,000 books on ornithology. He donated his ornithological library to the National Library of Australia in 1939. Also in 1939 Matthews donated a small collection of Aboriginal ethnographic items from Australia to the British Museum. - Anker 328; Nissen, IVB 605; The Auk 44 (3), p. 435-442; Wood, p. 454; Zimmer II, p. 419-421. Sprache: en 4200 Gramm. …