Peter Slater papers relating to A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, and Rare and Vanishing Birds

MLMSS 10520

fonds

approximately 1963-2009

9646385

1.36 metres of textual material (5 boxes and 1 outsize box)

The collection comprises typed and handwritten manuscripts with annotations, publisher page proofs, correspondence and published books.

BOX 1
A field guide to Australian birds : non-Passerines / Peter Slater. (Adelaide : Rigby, 1970). Includes typescript manuscript with annotations and corrections; correspondence with Rigby, Francis Ratcliffe at the Australian Conservation Foundation, and leading ornithologists; approximately 1963-1973

BOX 2
A field guide to Australian birds : passerines / Peter Slater. (Adelaide : Rigby, 1974). Includes notebook containing handwritten field notes and descriptions; typescript manuscript.

The Slater field guide to Australian birds [1st edition] / Peter Slater, Pat Slater, Raoul Slater. (Sydney : Rigby, 1986). Includes handwritten manuscript; typescript index; maps; non-passerines typescript manuscript with annotations; passerines typescript manuscript with annotations.

BOX 3
The Slater field guide to Australian birds [1st edition] / Peter Slater, Pat Slater, Raoul Slater. (Sydney : Rigby, 1986). Includes handwritten and typescript manuscript with annotations; exercise book containing handwritten notes on seabirds; corrections.

BOX 4
The Slater field guide to Australian birds [2nd edition] / Peter Slater, Pat Slater, Raoul Slater. (Sydney : New Holland, 2009). Includes publisher page proofs and artist's typescript notes; annoted plate proofs for passerines and non-passerines.

BOX 5
The Slater field guide to Australian birds: two copies of the 1st edition (1986) with corrections and additions for the 2nd edition (2009).
The Slater field guide to Australian birds [2nd edition] / Peter Slater, Pat Slater, Raoul Slater (Sydney : New Holland, 2009). Includes typescript manuscript with annotations.

Rare and vanishing Australian birds / Peter Slater, (Adelaide : Rigby, 1978). Includes correspondence and circulars, primarily in response to author requests, from government departments; exercise book containing handwritten manuscript; typescript manuscript with annotations.

BOX 6
Published books including:
A field guide to Australian birds : non-passerines / Peter Slater. (Adelaide : Rigby, 1970)
A field guide to Australian birds : passerines / Peter Slater. (Adelaide : Rigby, 1974)
Rare and vanishing Australian birds / [by] Peter Slater. (Adelaide : Rigby, 1978)
Birds of Australia : a summary of information / J. D. Macdonald ; with contribution by D. L. Serventy ; illustrated by Peter Slater. (Sydney : A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1973)

BOX 7X
The Slater field guide to Australian birds [2nd edition] / Peter Slater, Pat Slater, Raoul Slater (Sydney : New Holland, 2009), comprising A3 colour proofs.

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