Ornithology of Australia. Volume 3, commences with Cacatua and ends with Strepsilas, ca. 1863-1875 /...
Ornithology of Australia. Volume 3, commences with Cacatua and ends with Strepsilas, ca. 1863-1875 /...
Ornithology of Australia. Volume 3, commences with Cacatua and ends with Strepsilas, ca. 1863-1875 / by Silvester Diggles
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1863-1875
Call Numbers
PXA 1525/vol. 3
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 album (approximately 84 plates of watercolour drawings)
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Volume 3 includes drawings of cockatoos, parrakeets, lory, lorikeets, pigeons, wonga-wonga, bronze wings, doves, wattled tallegalla [i.e. brush turkey], leipoa, megapode, turnix, hemipode, quail, emu, cassowary, bustard, plovers, oyster catchers, pewits, dottrels, pratincole, stilt, avocat, godwits, sandpipers, greenshank, and turn stone. Some plat...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Ornithology of Australia. Volume 3, commences with Cacatua and ends with Strepsilas, ca. 1863-1875 / by Silvester Diggles
Notes
General note
David Scott Mitchell bookplate is located inside the front cover of each volume.
Label attached to inside front cover of volumes "Bound by / Sapsford, / Adelaide St., / Brisbane".
Pages in Volume 1 and Volume 3 bear watermark "Hodgkinson & Co. / 1864".
Digital order no:Album ID : 1148144
Signature / Inscriptions
Drawings are titled beneath image.
Handwritten in pencil on front endpapers of Volume 3, "The property of / W. George Diggles / Kangaroo Point / Brisbane".
Some drawings are signed either "S. Diggles ad nat", "S. Diggles", "S. Diggles from nature", "Lithographed & Painted by S. Diggles", "S. Diggles del.", or initialled "S.D.", and ar...
Description source
Titled from volume.
Published information
The ornithology of Australia / by Silvester Diggles¶Brisbane : Printed for the author by T.P. Pugh, [1866-1870].
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907.
Transferred from Mitchell Manuscripts (A 1525/1-4), August 1997.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1525/vol. 3
Record Identifier
92eV3mNY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eV3mNY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1133810
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