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GOULD, John (1804-1881). A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds. London: Taylor and Francis for the Author, [1849]-1861.
5 volumes, large 2° (545 x 362mm). 360 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, heightened with varnish and oil paint, by Gould, Henry Constantine Richter and William Hart, printed by Hullmandel and Walton, Walter and Cohn, and Mintern Brothers. (Occasional isolated spots, heavier spotting to just a few plates and text leaves.) Late 19th-century hard-grained green morocco, wide gilt dentelle border, spines gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: John Straker, Stagshaw House (armorial bookplate).
GOULD'S MASTERPIECE. 'An incomparable catalogue and compendium of beauties' (Fine Bird Books p. 29). The use of metallic oil colours enabled Gould to display the brilliant iridescent plumage of these tiny birds to the best advantage. Most of the subjects came from his own collection of humming-bird specimens, a number of which he exhibited at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens during the Great Exhibition of 1851. This is an attractively bound copy with generally clean plates (without the Supplement by Bowdler Sharpe, published 1880-87). Sauer 16; Anker 177; Fine Bird Books p. 78; Nissen IVB 380; Wood p. 365; Zimmer pp. 258. (5)
5 volumes, large 2° (545 x 362mm). 360 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, heightened with varnish and oil paint, by Gould, Henry Constantine Richter and William Hart, printed by Hullmandel and Walton, Walter and Cohn, and Mintern Brothers. (Occasional isolated spots, heavier spotting to just a few plates and text leaves.) Late 19th-century hard-grained green morocco, wide gilt dentelle border, spines gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: John Straker, Stagshaw House (armorial bookplate).
GOULD'S MASTERPIECE. 'An incomparable catalogue and compendium of beauties' (Fine Bird Books p. 29). The use of metallic oil colours enabled Gould to display the brilliant iridescent plumage of these tiny birds to the best advantage. Most of the subjects came from his own collection of humming-bird specimens, a number of which he exhibited at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens during the Great Exhibition of 1851. This is an attractively bound copy with generally clean plates (without the Supplement by Bowdler Sharpe, published 1880-87). Sauer 16; Anker 177; Fine Bird Books p. 78; Nissen IVB 380; Wood p. 365; Zimmer pp. 258. (5)
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