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GOULD (JOHN) Asiatic Birds: Fifty-Four Specimens Selected from 'The Birds of Asia', Henry Sotheran, 1890
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GOULD (JOHN)
Asiatic Birds: Fifty-Four Specimens Selected from 'The Birds of Asia', 54 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. Gould and W. Hart, heightened with gum arabic, title and endpapers lightly foxed, green half morocco by Sotheran, spine and upper cover gilt lettered, g.e., extremities rubbed, folio (550 x 355mm.), Henry Sotheran, 1890
Footnotes
"This work, of which only a limited edition has been printed, is... published as an example both of the ornithology of the Asiatic Continent, and of Mr Gould's inimitable contributions to the illustration of Natural History" (Preface).
Provenance: Acquired from H. Katz, August 1953; the library of Wassenaar Zoo.





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