This is where a lot of my effort has been going lately. As soon as I got this book, I knew I had to get all the images edited and posted, as they are some of the nicest bird plates I have ever seen. The book not only has beautiful illustrations, but is historically notable because it was the first time hand-colored lithographs were used to illustrate a state bird book.   It is one of the favorite books in my library, and the scans do not even begin to do justice to the depth of color on the plates. It is a very hefty book, and the binding is fairly weak. The cover is in very good condition, though, and is intact and clean complete with the gilt picture of a bird, so I will be putting the book up for sale in my bookstore soon. While the plates have unfortunately been stamped by an overzealous Australian librarian, the book remains one of the nicer extant copies I have come across. This is largely because the cover is in such good shape, not to mention that the book is still intact (there were only 300 or so copies issued with the ...