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Property of the Gladstone family of Hawarden Castle
GOULD, John (1804-1881)
A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans. London: for the Author, [1833-]1834[-1835].
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GOULD, John (1804-1881)
A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans. London: for the Author, [1833-]1834[-1835].
First edition of the first comprehensive attempt to illustrate and describe all known species of toucans: a wide-margined copy of Gould's first ornithological monograph. Lear's remarkable images of toucans, showing the young birds with the fully grown, are regarded as among the best of his zoological drawings. The work also contains a special anatomical essay by Richard Owen, illustrated with an uncolored lithograph by G. Scharf. Anker 170; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.101; Nissen IVB 378; Sauer 3; Wood p. 364; Zimmer pp. 252-253.
Large folio (560 x 375mm). 33 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Edward Lear (10) and John and Elizabeth Gould (23), one uncoloured plate by and after George Scharf, all printed by Charles Hullmandel (title very faintly soiled mainly on verso, subscribers list heavily soiled and creased with 110mm and 25mm repaired tears in blank areas without loss, some light spotting and offsetting mainly confined to extremities but with plates 5, 9 and 18 more heavily affected). 20th-century green three-quarter morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt (extremities faintly rubbed, spine sunned). Provenance: Harwarden Castle (small library label on front pastedown).
A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans. London: for the Author, [1833-]1834[-1835].
First edition of the first comprehensive attempt to illustrate and describe all known species of toucans: a wide-margined copy of Gould's first ornithological monograph. Lear's remarkable images of toucans, showing the young birds with the fully grown, are regarded as among the best of his zoological drawings. The work also contains a special anatomical essay by Richard Owen, illustrated with an uncolored lithograph by G. Scharf. Anker 170; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.101; Nissen IVB 378; Sauer 3; Wood p. 364; Zimmer pp. 252-253.
Large folio (560 x 375mm). 33 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Edward Lear (10) and John and Elizabeth Gould (23), one uncoloured plate by and after George Scharf, all printed by Charles Hullmandel (title very faintly soiled mainly on verso, subscribers list heavily soiled and creased with 110mm and 25mm repaired tears in blank areas without loss, some light spotting and offsetting mainly confined to extremities but with plates 5, 9 and 18 more heavily affected). 20th-century green three-quarter morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt (extremities faintly rubbed, spine sunned). Provenance: Harwarden Castle (small library label on front pastedown).
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