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Octavo, 92 volumes. Mostly bound (23 volumes unbound) in a mixture of publisher's boards and black half morocco with a red label, a very good set.

Octavo, 443 pp. portrait plate, nine tipped-in coloured plates and 55 uncoloured plates. Publisher's presentation blue morocco, some very minor shelf wear otherwise a fine copy.

Octavo, two volumes, 870 pp. uncoloured frontispieces. Attractive early binder's cloth, a few spots otherwise a bright pleasant copy.

Octavo, two volumes, 870 pp. aquatint frontispieces. Later half calf, all edges speckled, a very good copy.

Quarto, 194 pp. 28 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary full calf and maroon leather label, some wear and corners bumped, all edges coloured, a sound copy.

Octavo, 487 pp. 50 lithographed plates, folding coloured map. Publisher's green gilt pictorial cloth, some slight wear, a few spots otherwsie a very good copy.

Quarto, two volumes, 848 pp. text illustrations, coloured folded map in rear paste-down pocket of volume two. Publisher's handsome gilt cloth, a few spots otherwise a near fine copy.

Quarto, 21 volumes. Publisher's cloth (except for two volumes), a fine set.

Large octavo, 467 pp. text illustrations. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, slightly shaken, otherwise a very good copy, scarce.

Small folio, three volumes, 1880 pp. indices, 56 uncoloured engraved plates. Contemporary full calf, worn, modern spines with labels, some library stamps of the "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales", occasional heavy foxing and oxidation, slight worming and some staining. The copy of E. P. Ramsay (1842-1916 and curator of the Australian Museum) with his large copperplate signature in all volumes; although there are blemishes it is still a sound, acceptable set.

Octavo, xviii 301 pp. Later half calf and marbled boards, with the bookplate of H. M. Whittell.

Octavo, 84 handcoloured engraved plates with tissue-guards and accompanying text leaves. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards with some wear, titlepage dust-soiled with small ink-marks near lower edge and loss to upper fore-corner, plate of Elephant with small tear to fore-edge margin, occasional minor marking, but overall plates in very good condition, rare.

Large quarto, 302 pp. photographs, three chromolithographs including one of the Frill-necked Lizard. Publisher's handsome illustrated green cloth and top edge gilt, some slight rubbing and both hinges cracked and shaken otherwise a very good copy.

Octavo, 447 pp. four tinted plates, folding map. Publisher's cloth, the bookplate of J. Walter Tyas copy, a fine copy.

Octavo, four volumes, 1055 pp. text illustrations; a total of 69 plates including eleven zoological chromolithographs (three mammal, three bird, four reptile and one frog), folding map. Publisher's handsome blue cloth, uncut and partly unopened, a very good copy.

Octavo, 344 pp. 33 lithographed plates, including nine coloured by H. Gronvold. Publisher's cloth, rear hinge split, the library stamp of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, a bright crisp copy.