Greenland Gyrfalcon Falco Candicans

by John Gould

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

A beautiful image from John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain: A magnificent work with life-like portraits of birds of the British Isles Wood . This plate, from what Sacheverell Sitwell called The most popular of all his works Fine Bird Books , shows a new liveliness of treatment that is not present in Gould's earlier works. This improvement is thanks to suggestions made by Joseph Wolf, who drew 57 of the plates and accompanied Gould on an ornithological tour of

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