[Item #56353] 5 Limited Edition Facsimile Reproductions of Neville W. Cayley's Australian Parrots. Neville W. CAYLEY, A. H. Chisholm.

5 Limited Edition Facsimile Reproductions of Neville W. Cayley's Australian Parrots

[N.p., n.d.]. Limited Edition. No. 58 of 200. Green cloth-covered box (57cm) with large yellow label; containing five color prints (51x35cm) tipped onto publisher's cream laid paper folder, and one bifolium of printed text. Also with an extra print (55x38cm), reproducing a nineteenth-century lithograph of two kangaroos. Box with minor shelfwear, gently rubbed with a few small scuffs; prints clean and fresh: Very Good.

Cayley was a distinguished and pioneering Australian ornithologist. His What Bird is That? was the first comprehensive field guide to Australian birds, illustrated with paintings of each species. This collection reproduces five of his paintings of parrots.

Price: $200.00

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