Goshawk Erythrotriorchis Doriae

by John Gould, Richard Bowdler Sharpe

$1,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A beautiful print from Gould's Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. This plate is from one of Gould's most exotic works, The Birds of New Guinea, which consists of an extensive series of beautiful plates of birds of paradise, bower birds, parrots, parakeets, cockatoos, kingfishers and hawk-owls. It is his last full-scale work, Gould prepared the first twelve of the twenty-five parts, and the work

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