Author | Gracius J. Broinowski |
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Illustrator | Gracius J. Broinowski |
Language | English |
Subject | Australian birds |
Genre | Fine illustrated book |
Publisher | Charles Stuart & Co: Melbourne |
Publication date | 1890-1891 |
Publication place | Australia |
Media type | Print with chromolithographic plates |
The Birds of Australia is an illustrated book depicting Australian birds. It comprises six parts (often bound as three volumes) of 303 full-page, folio-sized, chromolithographed illustrations of over 700 species of Australian birds, with accompanying descriptive text. It was authored by Gracius Joseph Broinowski of Sydney, Australia and published in the early 1890s.[1]
In 1987, 37 of Broinowski's illustrations were reproduced by the Broinowski Publishing Co of Perth, Western Australia in a limited edition of 850 numbered copies: