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LEWIN, John William. A Natural History of the Birds of New South Wales. London: G. Schulze for J. H. Bohte, 1822.
2° (376 x 272mm). Letterpress title, table of contents, 26 hand-coloured engraved plates by Lewin. (Occasional light offsetting onto text and a few light spots.) Contemporary brown cloth with paper label on spine (hinges cracked, corners rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of the work under this title, although it is in fact a third edition of Lewin's Birds of New Holland (1808), with the addition of eight new plates (pl. VII and XIX-XXV). Zimmer p. 394; cf. Nissen IVB 561.
2° (376 x 272mm). Letterpress title, table of contents, 26 hand-coloured engraved plates by Lewin. (Occasional light offsetting onto text and a few light spots.) Contemporary brown cloth with paper label on spine (hinges cracked, corners rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of the work under this title, although it is in fact a third edition of Lewin's Birds of New Holland (1808), with the addition of eight new plates (pl. VII and XIX-XXV). Zimmer p. 394; cf. Nissen IVB 561.