Travel, Atlases, Maps, Photographs & Natural History
Travel, Atlases, Maps, Photographs & Natural History
Property of a Gentleman
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September 21, 09:23 AM GMT
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8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Property of a Gentleman
John Gould
A century of birds from the Himalaya mountains. London: [for the author], 1832
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, folio (545 x 368mm.), dedication leaf, list of subscribers, list of plates, 80 hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after E. Gould, nineteenth-century red morocco gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, extremities slightly rubbed
GOULD'S FIRST FOLIO VOLUME. The text was largely written by N.A. Vigors, secretary to the Zoological Society. Many notable natural historians of the time can be found in the list of subscribers, including John James Audubon and Edward Lear.
PROVENANCE:
P. Hussey, Esq.: bookplate
LITERATURE:
Anker 168; Nissen IVB 374; McGill/Wood p.364; Sauer 1; Zimmer p. 251