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GOULD, John (1804-1881). A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or family of Toucans. London: for the Author, 1852-1854.
2°. 51 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J.C. Richter, and one uncoloured plate of anatomical details, together with a suite of the 33 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Edward Lear and others from the first edition, all finely coloured by a later hand. Mid-19th-century dark green morocco, broad gilt borders (neatly rebacked).
Second edition, revised from the first of 1834-5 and with new plates and new species. This copy is EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a suite of plates from the first edition bound in, thus containing every plate of the Toucans ever published by John Gould.
2°. 51 hand-coloured lithographic plates by J.C. Richter, and one uncoloured plate of anatomical details, together with a suite of the 33 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Edward Lear and others from the first edition, all finely coloured by a later hand. Mid-19th-century dark green morocco, broad gilt borders (neatly rebacked).
Second edition, revised from the first of 1834-5 and with new plates and new species. This copy is EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a suite of plates from the first edition bound in, thus containing every plate of the Toucans ever published by John Gould.