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GOULD (JOHN) and JOSEPH WOLF A fine group of 18 hand-coloured lithographs of falcons and other birds of prey, after Gould, Joseph Wolf H.C. Richter and W. Hart lithographed by Richter and Hart (one by J. & E. Gould and one by Bowen & Co), some light browning, framed and glazed, each 560 x 380mm., mostly printed by Walter or Walter & Cohn, 1837-1883 Fußnoten The plates comprise: Falco Candicans. Greenland Falcon, dark race, adult; Archibuteo Lagopus [Rough-Legged Buzzard]; Falco Peregrinus [Peregrine Falcon]; Accipiter Nisis [Sparrow-Hawk]; Aquila Chrysaetos, Briss [Golden Eagle]; Falco Islandus, J.F.Gmel. Iceland Falcon, young; Falco Islandus, J.F.Gmel. Iceland Falcon, adult; Falco Subbuteo [Hobby]; Falco Gyrealco, Linn. Norwegian Falcon, adult and young; Falco Aesalon, Linn [Merlin]; Falco Candicans, J.F.Gmel. Greenland Falcon, light race adult and young; Falco Lanarius [Lanner Falcon]; Falco Candicans. Greenland Falcon, dark race young (from Gould's Birds of Great Britain, 1862-1873; Pandion Haliaetus [Osprey]; Red Footed Falcon. Falco rufipes (Bechst), printed by C. Hullmandel (from Gould's Birds of Europe, 1837); Falco Babylonicus, Gurney [Red-Naped Falcon]; Erythropus amurensis [White-winged Red-footed Kestrel] (from Gould's Birds of Asia, 1883); Falco Aurantius [Golden Sparrow-Hawk], lithographed by Bowen & Co. (from D.G. Elliott's The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America, 1868).