The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Sydney: Collins (1977). Folio. Orig. qtr. buckram over cloth with gilt-titled spine. Illust. dustjacket. In orig. cloth slipcase with buckram title-label laid down. (304pp.). With double-page map 60 numerous full-page col. plates and b/w illusts. by Australian ornithological artist William T. Cooper including distribution maps. Light foxing on text-block beginning pages and last page otherwise a fine copy. NOTE: 'This book follows in the footsteps of Gould and Bowdler-Sharpe ... [and] ... will again bring to all the people of ... the world the bird of paradise - ... a gift to our land ...' (M.T. Somare).