Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) treasures Creator Batt Rodd & Purves

Creator Batt Rodd & Purves Auctioneers

Men and women sit around a cloth laid on the grass

Rare photos of bustling Brisbane in the horse and cart days of the 1890's

exemplifying progressive neighbourhood and landscape planning theories of the time

Tasmania’s ‘Heritage Highway”⁣

Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) treasures Creator Batt Rodd & PurvesCreator J. Gould & H. C. Richter Date 1848 Breeds in Tasmania & migrates across the Bass Strait to south eastern Australia. Listed as Critically Endangered (estimated population of 2000) John Goulds lavish publication, Birds of Australia, was the most ambitious and finest ever published of Australian birds, included a staggering 681 large folio sized plates, 328 of which were species new to science. The illustration work by Goulds wife Elizabeth and