John White
Melbourne: Edition Renard, 2002.

One of 150 numbered copies of the standard edition (from a total edition of 212). A new edition of the first significant natural history book on Australia published after the First Fleet, with the text reset in Garamond, attractively printed in black, red, and green, and the plates enlarged by 50%. The 65 plates, by Sarah Stone, F. P. Nodder, and others, comprise 29 of birds (including splendid parrots), 10 of reptiles and amphibians, 7 mammals (marsupials and the Dingo), 6 of fishes, 9 of plants (including magnificent Banksias), 2 of invertebrates, and 2 of Aboriginal weapons and artefacts. In the original, the cancelled leaf Hh4 carries variant text for the Wattled Bee-Eater (the female in the cancelled state, the male in the uncancelled), both reproduced here, with bibliographical and publishing notes appended.