PROSPECTUS 
OF THE WORKS 
UN ORNITHOLOGY, EEC, 
JOHN GOULD, F.R.S. 
I. THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN. London, 1873. 
The publication of this work commenced in 1862, and is now complete 
in twenty-five Parts at Three Guineas a Part, or £78 15s. the whole. 
Any person desirous of obtaining one of the few remaining copies may 
do so by communicating with the Author. ‘ 
II, A CENTURY OF BIRDS FROM THE HIMALAYA MOUN- 
TAINS. 1 Volume, Imperial Folio, containing 80 Plates, with 
descriptive letterpress. Price £14 14s. London, 1832. 
This work, of which no copies remain, was commenced in January 
1831, and completed in August 1852. It contains figures and descriptions 
of 100 Birds which were at that time either new or very imperfectly 
known. 
Ill. THE BIRDS OF EUROPE. 5 Volumes, Imperial Folio, 
comprising 449 Plates, with descriptive letterpress, Introduction, 
&e. Price £76 8s. London, 1837. 
Of this work also no copies remain; and it is a source of much satisfac- 
tion to the Author to know that when a copy is offered for sale by public 
auction, on the demise of a Subscriber, it realizes considerably more than 
its original cost,—in some instances as much as £100 and even £120, 
IV. THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 7 Volumes, Imperial Folio, 
containing Figures of 600 species, with descriptive letterpress 
and a large amount of Introductory matter. Price £115, 
London, 1848. 
This work, of which no copies remain, was originally published in 
Thirty-six Parts, each containing Seventeen Plates with descriptive letter- 
press, at the price of Three Guineas each Part, with the exception of the 
Thirty-sixth, the price of which, in consequence of the large amount of 
introductory matter, was £4 12s, 
