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Volume 04: Zoology of N. [New] Holland etc.

Volume 04: Zoology of N. [New] Holland etc.

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9Bv7WJb9

Volume 04: Zoology of N. [New] Holland etc.

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Full title

Volume 04: Zoology of N. [New] Holland etc.

Call Numbers

SAFE/PXD 1098/vol. 4

Record Identifier

9Bv7WJb9

Reference Code

940936

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Physical Description

Contents

144 drawings - watercolour

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Copying Conditions

Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955<br><br>

Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales<br>

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Digitised

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Folio (503 x 392 mm.), 19th century half tan morocco gilt by Hodgson, Liverpool, with marbled papered boards, the spine in compartments with red morocco lettering pieces titled ‘ZOOLOGY OF N. HOLLAND ETC:’, the 13th Earl of Derby’s bookplate on front pastedown.

An album containing 32 watercolours of fish and 112 watercolours of birds.
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Alternative Titles

Full title

Volume 04: Zoology of N. [New] Holland etc.

Notes

General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 961231

Description source

New South Wales drawings : the property of the Earl of Derby : important early Australian watercolours from the library of the 13th Earl of Derby at Knowsley [catalogue] / Christie's. [London : Christie's, 2011]

Correction: Christie's catalogue records the title for Volume 04: Zoology of N. [New] Holland etc., 31 watercolours of fish and 113...

Object History

Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842); sale, S. Leigh Sotheby, 26 Lower Grosvenor Street (the residence of the late Mr Lambert), London, 18-20 April, 1842 (Catalogue of the valuable botanical library of the late A.B. Lambert, F.R.S., F.S.A., &c, of Boyton House, Wiltshire), lot 677 (‘Zoology of New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land, A Collection of 142 fin...

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

SAFE/PXD 1098/vol. 4

Record Identifier

9Bv7WJb9

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9Bv7WJb9

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Reference code

940936

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