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GOULD, John (1804-1881). A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans. London: Taylor and Francis for the author, [1852-] 1854.
Large 2° (555 x 371mm). 51 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES after and by Gould and Henry Constantine Richter, and 1 uncoloured lithographic plate by G. Scharf, printed by Hullmandel & Walton. (Occasional very light marginal soiling, particularly slight marginal dust-soiling to text.) Later brown half morocco, spine gilt in six compartments, lettered in three, t.e.g. (spine slightly faded).
Second, revised and expanded edition of Gould's 1833-5 monograph of the same title. It comprises "new drawings of the old species, and figures and descriptions of no less than eighteen others - all, in fact, that are known up to the present time" (Preface). Gould regarded this edition as a completely new work, both in terms of the number of new species he describes and because, as a result of these discoveries, he proposes a new division of the group into six genera, rather than the original two. The uncoloured plate accompanies Richard Owen's text on the the anatomy of the toucan, which was written especially for this monograph. Zimmer p.259; Sauer 19; Nissen IVB 378; cf. Fine Bird Books p. 77 (calling for 52 coloured plates); Anker 170.
Large 2° (555 x 371mm). 51 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES after and by Gould and Henry Constantine Richter, and 1 uncoloured lithographic plate by G. Scharf, printed by Hullmandel & Walton. (Occasional very light marginal soiling, particularly slight marginal dust-soiling to text.) Later brown half morocco, spine gilt in six compartments, lettered in three, t.e.g. (spine slightly faded).
Second, revised and expanded edition of Gould's 1833-5 monograph of the same title. It comprises "new drawings of the old species, and figures and descriptions of no less than eighteen others - all, in fact, that are known up to the present time" (Preface). Gould regarded this edition as a completely new work, both in terms of the number of new species he describes and because, as a result of these discoveries, he proposes a new division of the group into six genera, rather than the original two. The uncoloured plate accompanies Richard Owen's text on the the anatomy of the toucan, which was written especially for this monograph. Zimmer p.259; Sauer 19; Nissen IVB 378; cf. Fine Bird Books p. 77 (calling for 52 coloured plates); Anker 170.