Catalogue of the Australian Accipitres or Diurnal Birds of Prey Inhabiting Australia, in the Collection of the Australian Museum at Sydney, N.S.W.

Minister of Justice and Public Instruction. Sydney. 1876. 8vo.. pp. viii, (ii), 64, 3 Index, (i) blank. Original quarter-calf, a little worn at the spine ends, oval engraved book-label of ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND of Austria, a very good copy overall. *Remarkable provenance - Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo is considered the most immediate cause of World War I. He was a dedicated game hunter and kept meticulous records of his numerous hunting expeditions. During his life-time, it is recorded that he killed close on 275,000 animals. His world tour of 1892-1893 included time in Australia and it is no surprise to see that this catalogue was in his archive. TOGETHER WITH : FREDERICK WILLIAM, Crown Prince of the German Empire and of Prussia. From My Hunting Day-Book. [Translated by J. E. HODDER WILLIAMS. Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1912. pp. xv, (i), 131, (i). Coloured portrait frontispiece, 28 plates. Original cloth gilt, the lower corner of the book-block damp-marked, scarcely affecting the interior, more visible on the binding. *INTRODUCTION. 'In submitting this book to the reading public I Confess to a certain sense of embarrassment. I should like from the first to warn my readers against harbouring any false illusions. I do not pretend to claim any literary merit.......... [these] are just pages taken from the hunting diary of a man who loves open-air sport, and to whom Nature, grand and beautiful, is an inexhaustible [not any more] source of delight and joy [alive or dead].'