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Title

Natural history of Victoria : Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria, or, figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals

Title Variants

Alternative: Figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals
Alternative: Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria

By

McCoy, Frederick, 1817-1899
Ferguson, J. M.,
MacGillivray, P. H. (Paul Howard), 1834-1895
Wild, John James
Hamel & Co.,
Trübner & Co.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Melbourne, By authority: J. Ferres, government printer, 1885-1890

Notes

Issued from 1878-1890 in 20 parts, and reissued in 2 v. each with collective t.p. dated 1885 and 1890.

Publisher and printer vary: Decades II-IX add: "Published by George Robertson, Little Collins Street" and (to the printer): "And George Robertson, l7 Warwick Square." Decade X-XIV = Decade I. Vol. II t.p., Decade XV-XX: 'By authority: Robert S. Brain, government printer." and Trübner and Co. as sole printer.

Some plates headed: "Memoirs of the Museum." Drawn, lithographed, or engraved by P.H. MacGillivray, Dr. J.J. Wild, many others, and printed by Hamel & Co., J.M. Ferguson, and others and various sections of the Australian Government Printing Office.

Some of the plates hand-colored.

Contents: Vol. 1, Decades 1 to 10 -- v. 2, Decades 11 to 20.