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Birds of New Holland with their natural history / collected, engraved and faithfully painted after nature by John William Lewin
Bib ID 373575
Format BookBook, OnlineOnline
Author
Lewin, J. W. (John William), 1770-1819
 
Online Versions
Description London : Printed for the author and published by J. White and S. Bagster, the letter-press by T. Bensley, 1808 
22 pages, 18 leaves of plates : colour illustrations ; 39 cm. 
Notes

National Library of Australia's two copies are hand coloured.

National Library of Australia's RBRS N F465 (Petherick) copy includes a tipped in poem in ms signed J.G.: Panegyric on an eminent artist, Paramatta [sic], New South Wales, 1804.

National Library of Australia's RBRS N GMMef 598.2994 LEW copy contains tipped in correspondence from Francis Edward Ltd. Booksellers London, including a receipt of purchase.; bears the bookplate "Ex Libris: Gregory M Mathews", and is accessioned: B2123.

RBRS N F465 (Petherick) and RNRS N GMMef 598.2994 LEW (Mathews) copies also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-134306397

Cited In

Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 465.

Subjects Birds -- Australia.
Exhibited National Library of Australia's RBRS N F465 (Petherick) copy exhibited: "Lewin: Wild Art", State Library of New South Wales, 3 March 2012 - 27 May 2012 and National Library of Australia, 28 July 2012 - 28 October 2012. 

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RBRS N F465
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Note: N hbk
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RBRS N GMMef 598.2994 LEW
Copy: Mathews collection (hbk)
Note: N (hbk)
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