Linnean Society of New South Wales. The Macleay Memorial Volume.
Sydney: 1893.
Quarto, photograph as frontispiece (offset onto title, as always) and 42 photographic or lithographic plates; uncut and partly unopened in the original green wrappers.
An influential and well illustrated collection of zoological articles, published by the Linnean Society as a memorial to William Macleay, its first and most famous President who had died in 1891. The frontispiece is a fine original woodburytype photograph of "the resident 'Sir Joseph Banks''(ADB).
An influential and well illustrated collection of zoological articles, published by the Linnean Society as a memorial to William Macleay, its first and most famous President who had died in 1891. The frontispiece is a fine original woodburytype photograph of "the resident 'Sir Joseph Banks''(ADB).
This work also contains several full page lithographic plates showing aboriginal weapons.
Condition Report: A fine copy.
Price (AUD): $450.00
US$297.53 Other currencies