''The Birds of Australia'' is an illustrated book depicting Australian birds. It comprises six parts (often bound as three volumes) of 303 full-page, folio-sized, chromolithographed illustrations of over 700 species of

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

n birds, with accompanying descriptive text. It was authored by

Gracius Joseph Broinowski Gracius Joseph Broinowski (7 March 1837 – 11 April 1913) was a Polish-Australian artist and ornithologist. He was born at the village of Walichnowy in central Poland, the son of a landowner and military officer. He studied languages, cl ...

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

and published in the early 1890s.Whittell (1954). In 1987, 37 of Broinowski's illustrations were reproduced by the Broinowski Publishing Co of Perth, Western Australia in a

limited edition The terms special edition, limited edition, and variants such as deluxe edition, or collector's edition, are used as a marketing incentive for various kinds of products, originally published products related to the arts, such as books, prints, r ...

of 850 numbered copies: * ''Birds Of Australia. Gracius Joseph Broinowski. A Selection of his Finest Lithographs 1887-1891''.

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* A scanned version of ''The Birds of Australia'' can be found in the Biodiversity Heritage Librar

1890 non-fiction books Fine illustrated books Books about Australian birds Ornithological handbooks 1891 non-fiction books {{art-book-stub