Hybrid Grouse. Tetrao hybridus

by John Gould

$500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A beautiful image from John Gould's 'The Birds of Europe': a work which, according to Hyman, 'included some of the most remarkable bird drawings ever made'. This plate is from the second of John Gould's great ornithological portfolios. Gould undertook this work not only hoping to build on the success of his first work on the birds of the Himalaya mountains , but also in an effort to redress the imbalance between the study of local and foreign ornithology. It was his opinion

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