Ornithology of Australia. Volume 1, commences with Acquila and ends with Smicrornis, ca. 1863-1875 /...
Ornithology of Australia. Volume 1, commences with Acquila and ends with Smicrornis, ca. 1863-1875 /...
Ornithology of Australia. Volume 1, commences with Acquila and ends with Smicrornis, ca. 1863-1875 / by Silvester Diggles
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1863-1875
Call Numbers
PXA 1525/vol. 1
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
Approximately 85 watercolours (1 album)
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 : 2014
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Volume 1 includes drawings of eagles, falcons, hawks, kestrels, goshawks, buzzards, kites, harrier, owls, night tar, tawny frogmouths, goat-suckers, swallows, Australian swift, martins, Australian bee-eater, Australian roller, Laughing Jackass [i.e. kookaburra], kingfishers, halcoyons, genus pardalotus, shrike [magpies], butcher birds, pied grallin...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Ornithology of Australia. Volume 1, commences with Acquila and ends with Smicrornis, 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 the inside front cover "Bound by / Sapsford, / Adelaide St., / Brisbane".
Pages in Volume 1 and Volume 3 bear watermark "Hodgkinson & Co. / 1864".
Microfilm : MAV/FM6/358/1 - 4
Microfilm : CY 2319
Digital order no:Album ID : 1148136...
Signature / Inscriptions
Drawings are titled beneath image.
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 are dated.
"D.S. Mitchell" signature appears on front endpapers of each volume.
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. 1
Record Identifier
nM7lavXY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nM7lavXY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1102937
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