Beschreibung:

GOULD, John. A collection of plates extracted from The Birds of Great Britain , London: for the author, 1862-73. 2° (560 x 380mm), comprising 50 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Walter after J. Gould and H. C. Richter, most with descriptive text leaves, namely: Squacco Heron, Little Bittern, Night-Heron, Crested Cormorant or Shag, Cormorant, Little Bustard, Water-Rail, Eared Grebe, Baillon's Craike, Horned Grebe, Siberian Thrush, Ring-Ousel, Oriolus Galbula, White Thrush, Rock-Pigeon, White-backed Woodpecker, Nutcracker, White-winged Tern (2), Caspian Tern, Black Tern, Herring Gull, Butcher Bird, Rose-breasted Shrike, Pectoral Sandpiper, Bonaparte-Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Orange-legged Hobby, Goshawk (2), Spotted Eagle, Archibuteo Lagopus, Circus Aeruginosus, Richard's Pipit, Tree-Pipit, Rustic Bunting, Calandra Lark!, Melodious Warbler, Red-throated Bluebreast, White-throated Bluebreast, Black Redstart, Dwarf Bunting, Red-throated Pipit, Grey Plover, Charadrius Pluvialis (one with summer and one with winter plumage), Red-breasted or Brown Snipe, Bartram's Sandpiper, Cream-coloured Courser and Little Ringed Plover (a few very faint spot marks). Mullens & Swann p.242; Nissen IVB 372; Sitwell Fine Bird Books p.102. With 10 hand-coloured lithographed plates, all with descriptive text leaves, by Hullmandel and Walton after J. Gould and H. C. Richter extracted from John Gould and Richard Bowdler Sharpe's A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds , London: for the author, 1849-1861. 2° (560 x 380mm.), comprising: Tufted Coquette, Spangled Coquette, Poortman's Emerald, Festive Coquette, Red-billed Azure-Crown, Snow-Cap, Crimson-throated Wood-Star, Letitia, Canivet's Emerald and White-throated Oreopyra (a few very faint spot marks). Nissen IVB 380; Sitwell p.102. One of the plates, "Chlorostilbon Portmanni" (Poortman's Emerald), is illustrated on the back cover of this catalogue. (60)