Jewels of nature: the parrots, volume one [all published].
Sydney: Fine Art Collectibles, 2001. Elephant folio, 60 plates by Gordon Hanley. Full green morocco with an inlaid picture of a Major Mitchell Cockatoo, numbered and signed by Gordon Hanley and the publisher (Okko Boer); all in a green solander carry-case.
Text by Neville Connors, Stephen Garnett, Rosemary Low, Charles Munn, Mike Perrin, Charles Reillo and Howard Voren.
Originally published with a retail price of AU$20,000 in an intended edition of 2000 copies (!) with a second volume planned. I think it is fair to call this massive tome (it weights 26.6 kilograms in its wooden mailing crate) a folly. Not surprisingly very few copies of volume one were produced and volume two was never published. Freight will most definitely be extra.
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