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Property of the Gladstone family of Hawarden Castle
GOULD, John (1804-1881)
A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons. London: Richard and John E. Taylor for the author, [1835-]1838.
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GOULD, John (1804-1881)
A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons. London: Richard and John E. Taylor for the author, [1835-]1838.
A wide-margined subscriber’s copy of the first edition of Gould’s second monograph. 'The trogons are birds of moderate size: the smallest is hardly bigger than a thrush and the largest less bulky than a crow... Their feet are weak and of a unique structure, the second toe... being reverted, and in this trogons stand alone, since in all other birds that have two toes before and two behind it is the outer toe that is turned backward. The plumage is very remarkable and characteristic... and the glory of the group is the quezal [sic.]' (Alfred Newton, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911). Anker 171; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.101; Nissen IVB 381; Sauer 4; Zimmer p.253.
Large folio (560 x 375mm). 36 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after John and Elizabeth Gould, printed by Charles Hullmandel, one of which folding (folding plate with a few light marginal spots and old minor repair to fold, light occasional spotting and offsetting, plates 10 and 27 more heavily affected, one text leaf lightly creased). 20th-century green three-quarter Morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities faintly rubbed, spine sunned). Provenance: Sir Stephen Glynne, Bt. (subscriber, Hawarden Castle, small library label on front pastedown – and thence by direct descent to the present owner.
A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons. London: Richard and John E. Taylor for the author, [1835-]1838.
A wide-margined subscriber’s copy of the first edition of Gould’s second monograph. 'The trogons are birds of moderate size: the smallest is hardly bigger than a thrush and the largest less bulky than a crow... Their feet are weak and of a unique structure, the second toe... being reverted, and in this trogons stand alone, since in all other birds that have two toes before and two behind it is the outer toe that is turned backward. The plumage is very remarkable and characteristic... and the glory of the group is the quezal [sic.]' (Alfred Newton, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911). Anker 171; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.101; Nissen IVB 381; Sauer 4; Zimmer p.253.
Large folio (560 x 375mm). 36 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after John and Elizabeth Gould, printed by Charles Hullmandel, one of which folding (folding plate with a few light marginal spots and old minor repair to fold, light occasional spotting and offsetting, plates 10 and 27 more heavily affected, one text leaf lightly creased). 20th-century green three-quarter Morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities faintly rubbed, spine sunned). Provenance: Sir Stephen Glynne, Bt. (subscriber, Hawarden Castle, small library label on front pastedown – and thence by direct descent to the present owner.
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