Rare & Curious. The Secret History of Governor Macquarie's Collectors' Chest.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press 2010). Oblong sm. 4to. Orig. illust. boards preserved in its as issued pictorial slip-case. (xii 276pp.). Profusely illustrated mostly in colour. Fine. NOTE: This work is a wonderland of arcane Australiana ranging from a history of convict cabinetmakers through to the 19th-century obsession with collecting exotic examples of Australia's fauna.