A monograph of Australian land shells.
Sydney: William Maddock, 1868. Octavo, 20 handcoloured lithographs by Harriet Forde. Early binder's (publisher's?) cloth, the title wrapper retained, owner's signature on title page dated 1920, a few spots throughout but a very sound copy, scarce.
Issued with coloured or uncoloured plates, Ferguson does not mention the existence of coloured copies. An important book that belongs to a select group of Australian nineteenth century books; one of no more than 25 colour plate natural history titles published in Australia. Harriet (1830-1907) and Helena (1832-1910) Scott are justifiably highly regarded for the nineteenth century books natural history books they illustrated.
Ferguson 8792.