The Birds of Great Britain

by John Gould

$165,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Taylor and Francis for the Author, 1862-1873. / First edition in the twenty-five original parts as issued, with the Snowy Owl in its first state — printed before the stone broke — of what Gould himself counted as the summit of his career. The work appeared between 1862 and 1873, forming five imperial folio volumes with 367 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Gould, Wolf, Richter, and Hart. Joseph Wolf drew fifty-seven of them and urged

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