No Name (1915), A List of British Birds compiled by a committee of the British Ornithologists’ Union. British Ornithologists’ Union, second revised ed., 430 pp. with gilt ’H.L. WHITE. BELLTREES’ to upper board and bookplate “A Book of Henry L. White. Belltrees, Scone, N.S.W. Australian Ornithology Philately and Bibliography”. Wonderful bookplate designed by Lionel Lindsay of a Lyrebird inspecting a pile of books on ornithology and philately.
Henry Luke White (1860-1927), managing partner of Belltrees in New South Wales (one of Australia’s most renowned and prosperous pastoral estates), was a world-famous collector of bird eggs, rare stamps and rare Australiana books.
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