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JOHN GOULD, and WILLIAM HART (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY)
The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands: Four Plates
four lithographs with hand-coloring, 1875-88, on wove papers, published by Walter and Mintern Bros., London, all with full margins, all with pale light- staining to varying degrees, pale scattered foxing on several plates, Piezorhynchus Medius, Sharpe with a 1¼-in. tear at the center of the right sheet edge extending into the margin, otherwise all apparently in very good condition
all L. approx. 18½ x 11 in. (469 x 278 mm.)
all S. approx. 21¼ x 14½ in. (539 x 368 mm.) (4)
The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands: Four Plates
four lithographs with hand-coloring, 1875-88, on wove papers, published by Walter and Mintern Bros., London, all with full margins, all with pale light- staining to varying degrees, pale scattered foxing on several plates, Piezorhynchus Medius, Sharpe with a 1¼-in. tear at the center of the right sheet edge extending into the margin, otherwise all apparently in very good condition
all L. approx. 18½ x 11 in. (469 x 278 mm.)
all S. approx. 21¼ x 14½ in. (539 x 368 mm.) (4)
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This lot has no reserve.