COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ORNITHOLOGY 



JOHN GOULD'S ORNITHOLOGICAL WRITINGS 



INCLUDING A COMPLETE SET OF 



THE FOLIOS 



GOULD, JOHN. A Century of Birds from the 

 Himalaya Mountains. With 80 magnificent large 

 hand-colored plates exhibiting 100 figures of Birds all 

 drawn from Nature and on Stone by Mrs. Gould. 

 Imp. folio, full dark green morocco extra, broad gold- 

 tooled borders on sides, full tooled back, gilt edges. 

 London, privately printed, 1832. 



Original Edition of Gould's first work. 



GOULD, JOHN. The Birds of Europe. With 

 449 magnificent colored plates drawn by Mrs. Gould 

 and Edward Lear, and nearly all containing Figures 

 of the Male and Female Bird. 5 vols., imp. folio, 

 full dark green morocco extra, broad gold-tooled bor- 

 ders on sides, full tooled backs, gilt edges. London, 

 published by the Author, 1837. 



The Birds of Europe were colored by Mrs. Gould, who is ac- 

 knowledged by competent judges to have been the finest colorist 

 of ornithological subjects of modern times. 



A most magnificent work, which for beauty and accuracy 

 stands unrivalled. The celebrated Temminck, in his Manuel 

 d'Ornithologie, emphatically remarks: "'The Birds of Europe, 

 sent d'un fini si parfait, tant pour le dessein, la pose et I'exacte 

 verite de I'enluminure, qu'on pourrait, avec de si beaux portraits, 

 se passer des originaux montes." Only 286 copies were printed, 

 and the work has become as rare as it is beautiful. It is the 

 most perfect in its coloring of the numerous works issued by Mr. 

 Gould. 



GOULD, JOHN. Icones Avium, or Figures and 

 Descriptions of New and Interesting Species of Birds 

 from Various Parts of the Globe. With 18 large and 

 extremely beautiful hand-colored plates. 2 parts in 

 I vol., imp. folio, full dark green morocco extra, 



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