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MR. GOULD'S WORKS, continued: 



BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA 



AND THE ADJACENT PAPUAN ISLANDS. 



COMPRISING 32O COLOURED PLATES. 



WITH COPIOUS DESCRIPTIONS. 



FORMING FIVE VOLUMES IMPERIAL FOLIO 



NEWLY BOUND IN HALF MOROCCO EXTRA, GILT EDGES, 85. 

 WHOLE MOROCCO EXTRA, GILT EDGES, 95. 



%* The death of Mr. GOULD in no way interfered with the completion of this fine Work, nor 

 was the execution in any respect inferior to his own portion of it. At his death he left a large 

 number of drawings for the continuation of all his Works, and he had explained his wi-hes 

 regarding them to his friend Dr. BOWDLER SHARPE, of the British Museum (the Author, with Dr. 

 DRESSER, of the great Work on the ''Birds of Europe"}, and this eminent Ornithologist under- 

 took the continuation of all the publications left unfinished at the time of Mr. GOULD'S decease, 

 including the Letterpress to the present Work. 



The publishers, also, retained the services of MR. GOULD'S WHOLE STAFF OF ARTISTS AND 

 COLOURERS ; and Mr. HART, who had for so many years been entrusted wiih the execution of the 

 Plates, superintended the whole of the Illustrations. 



" IT IS ADMITTED (says Mr. GOULD) that New Guinea, or Papua, and the Papuan 

 Islands [the former is separated only by Torres Strait from North Australia], have the FINEST 

 BIRDS IN CREATION THE PARADISEID/E which have many different decorations, 

 and must be ?een in the Drawings to understand their forms; also THE FINEST PARROTS, 

 KINGFISHERS, and PITTAS." 



THE BIRDS OF ASIA. 



COMPRISING 53O COLOURED PLATES. 



WITH COPIOUS DESCRIPTIONS, 



FORMING SEVEN VOLUMES IMPERIAL FOLIO, 



NEWLY BOUND IN HALF MOROCCO EXTRA, GILT EDGES, 110. 

 WHOLE MOROCCO EXTRA, GILT EDGES, 125. 



The VERY FEW COMPLETE SETS it was possible to make up having been for some 

 time disposed of, the Work is now wholly out of print, and is rapidly becoming as scarce and 

 valuable as Mr. GOULD'S other Works. 



" To no portion of the globe (says the Author) does there attach so much interest as to that 

 vast extent of the Old World which we designate Asia. It is there that all the productions of 



Nature essential to the well-being of man cccur in the greatest abundance That the 



zoology, then, of such a country should have called forth the notice and study of able minds cannot 

 be surprising; and yet it is remaikable that no one has attempted a Work comprehending a 

 general history of its Ornithology." This hiatus in Ornithological literature has been filled up by 

 the present Work on "The Birds of Asia. " 



" The later Works of Mr. GOULD have been distinguished for the exquisite finish of the 

 Illustrations, hut none is so remarkable in this respect as ' The Birds of Asia.' Drawn with all 

 the fidelity which characterizes his earliest productions, the Birds represented in this. Work may 

 be seen in the romantic beauty of their native haunts, and many of the bright-hued Flowers of the 

 East will be found figured in these magnificent illustrations." Nature. 



