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GOULD (JOHN) The Birds of Australia. Supplement, Parts 1-3 only (of 5), Published by the author, [1851-1869], sold as a collection of plates not subject to return image 1
GOULD (JOHN) The Birds of Australia. Supplement, Parts 1-3 only (of 5), Published by the author, [1851-1869], sold as a collection of plates not subject to return image 2
GOULD (JOHN) The Birds of Australia. Supplement, Parts 1-3 only (of 5), Published by the author, [1851-1869], sold as a collection of plates not subject to return image 3
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GOULD (JOHN)
The Birds of Australia. Supplement, Parts 1-3 only (of 5), Published by the author, [1851-1869], sold as a collection of plates not subject to return

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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GOULD (JOHN)

The Birds of Australia. Supplement, Parts 1-3 only (of 5), 49 hand-coloured lithographed plates (one double-page) by and after John and Elizabeth Gould and H.C. Richter, occasional light spotting (mostly in first part, 2 plates with short tears at edge), loose in publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, covers detached and soiled, spines defective [Nissen IVB 370], folio (565 x 383mm.), Published by the author, [1851-1869], sold as a collection of plates not subject to return

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