Author: Cayley, N. W.
Title: Australian parrots. Their habits in the field and aviary.
Description: Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. 8vo (23.0 x 15.3 cm). xxviii, 332 pp.; 33 plates of which 11 in full colour. Original green cloth with gilt title on the spine. = A very uncommon first edition of a work illustrated by the author, the President of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, and famous Australian ornithologist, Neville William Cayley (1886-1950). Small blindstamp on title and library stamp on front pastedown. There are some much later reprints, but this is the original edition with better plates. Some worming in the front board, only visible on the front pastedown, and adjacent front free endpaper; otherwise a very good, clean copy. Not in Nissen IVB.

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