Burmese Parrakeet Palaeornis Cyanocephala

by John Gould

$1,200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A fine image of two parakeets from John Gould's magnificent folio work The Birds of Asia. The intended geographical range of The Birds of Asia was enormous, and very much in keeping with the seemingly limitless self-belief of the 19th-century's best known ornithologist. In his all-encompassing work John Gould includes species from all corners of the eastern world, as Richard Bowdler Sharpe noted the work covers Species from Palestine to the eastward, and from the

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