A century of birds from the Himalaya mountains, London, 1812, first edition, nineteenth-century red morocco

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Los 22 | A century of birds from the Himalaya mountains, London, 1812, first edition, nineteenth-century red morocco
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A century of birds from the Himalaya mountains. London: [for the author], 1832

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, folio (545 x 368mm.), dedication leaf, list of subscribers, list of plates, 80 hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after E. Gould, nineteenth-century red morocco gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, extremities slightly rubbed

GOULD'S FIRST FOLIO VOLUME. The text was largely written by N.A. Vigors, secretary to the Zoological Society. Many notable natural historians of the time can be found in the list of subscribers, including John James Audubon and Edward Lear.
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