GOULD, John.
A Monograph of the Ramphastidae; or Family of Toucans.
A Monograph of the Ramphastidae; or Family of Toucans.
Stock Code 113756
London The author, 1834-35.
First edition; folio (54 x 36 cm.); dedication leaf, list of subscribers, and 33 hand-coloured lithographs by and after Edward Lear, John and Elizabeth Gould, each heightened with gum arabic, one uncoloured lithographed anatomical plate by and after G. Scharf; contemporary half green morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, a fine copy.
Anker 170; Ayer/Zimmer 252; Balis 102; Fine Bird Books 77; McGill/Wood 364; Nissen IVB 378; Sauer 3.
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