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GOULD, John (1804-1881) and Richard Bowdler SHARPE (1847-1909)

Lot 95
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Lot 95 | GOULD, John (1804-1881) and Richard Bowdler SHARPE (1847-1909)
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£ 70 000 – 100 000
GOULD, John (1804-1881) and Richard Bowdler SHARPE (1847-1909)
The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. London: Taylor and Francis for Henry Sotheran & Co., 1875-1888.
An extremely fine, clean and handsomely bound set of Gould's companion to his monumental Birds of Australia. Gould died on 3 February 1881 shortly after the publication of the 12th part. The remaining 13 parts were edited or written by Sharpe and illustrated by William Matthew Hart. There are many impressive sections with bold depictions often including the birds' natural habitats and food sources such as specific reptiles and insects. Represented bird families include birds-of-paradise, eagles, honey-eaters, sunbirds, thickheads, flowerpeckers, starlings, pittas, kingfishers, cuckoos, parrots, lorikeets, cockatoos, fruit-pigeons, and, in finale, cassowaries. Anker 181; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.102; Nissen IVB 373; Sauer 27; Wood p.365; Zimmer pp.262-263.

5 volumes, large folio (550 x 370mm). 320 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates by Gould and Hart, printed by Walter or the Mintern Brothers, many heightened with gum-arabic (one or two plates with very faint even browning, otherwise a fine, clean copy). Near-contemporary red morocco [unsigned, but most probably by Zaehnsdorf as it is bound uniformly with the set of The Birds of Great Britain (see lot 90)], covers with wide gilt border composed of a fleur-de-lys and leaf roll used twice, two fillet tramlines and a dotted roll used twice, sandwiching a large ornate foliate roll terminating with foliate cornerpieces, gilt spines with double raised bands in 6 compartments, lettered in second and fourth, the others filled with elaborately-tooled foliate centrepieces, marbled endpapers, gilt edges and inner dentelles (extremities lightly rubbed, small mark at head of front cover to vol. III).
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