Psittacorum: Rare Bird Books with Australian Interest

Kuhl, Heinrich. Conspectus psittacorum. [Bonn, 1820]. Quarto, pp.104, with 3 hand-coloured plates, uncut in original cloth-backed wrappers (spine worn, with defective label), with the bookplates of Frederick Ducane Godman, J.H. Calaby and H.W.Whittell. A little foxed. With, Temminck, M.C. J., Account of new species of the birds of the genera Psittacus and Columba in the Museum of the Linnean Society, [London, 1820], quarto, pp.107-130, extracted from the Transactions, in binder's cloth retaining the contemporary wrappers, with the bookplate of W.H. Whittell and his pencilled notes concerning Australian species. With, Wagler, Johann Georg, Monographia psittacorum, Munich, 1835, octavo, pp 473-750, in half calf, the posthumous separate issue, also H.W. Whittell's copy., A rare group, of considerable Australian interest. Many of the species discussed by Kuhl and Temminck were brought back from Australia by Robert Brown.