Rare and Vanishing Australian Birds
by SLATER, Peter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Adelaide: Rigby, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide, Rigby, 1978. Quarto, 96 pages with illustrations and 42 full-page colour plates (all after watercolours by the author). Papered boards slightly marked; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly creased. Loosely inserted is 'Flock Pigeon', a colour print from a watercolour by the author (lightly creased at the extremities). With the armorial bookplate of Roger Angove.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140147
- Title
- Rare and Vanishing Australian Birds
- Author
- SLATER, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rigby
- Place of Publication
- Adelaide
- Date Published
- 1978
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Bookplate
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- Dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- Quarto
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