GOULD, John (1804-1881)

Лот 119
09.07.2025 10:30UTC +01:00
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Место проведенияВеликобритания, London
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Лот 119 | GOULD, John (1804-1881)
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GOULD, John (1804-1881)
A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons. London: Richard and John E. Taylor for the author, [1835-]1838.
First edition of Gould’s second ornithological monograph: a wide-margined subscriber’s copy. Documenting 34 species of trogons, with Gould himself identifying and describing 12 species new to science at the time, it clarified the taxonomy of a previously confusing group. 'The trogons are birds of moderate size: the smallest is hardly bigger than a thrush and the largest less bulky than a crow... Their feet are weak and of a unique structure, the second toe... being reverted, and in this trogons stand alone, since in all other birds that have two toes before and two behind it is the outer toe that is turned backward. The plumage is very remarkable and characteristic... and the glory of the group is the quezal [sic.]' (Alfred Newton, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911). Anker 171; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.101; Nissen IVB 381; Sauer 4; Zimmer p.253.

Large folio (560 x 375mm). 36 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after John and Elizabeth Gould, printed by Charles Hullmandel, one of which folding (folding plate with a few light marginal spots and old minor repair to fold, light occasional spotting and offsetting, plates 10 and 27 more heavily affected, one text leaf lightly creased). 20th-century green three-quarter Morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt, others uncut (extremities faintly rubbed, spine sunned). Provenance: Sir Stephen Glynne, Bt. (subscriber, Hawarden Castle, small library label on front pastedown) – and thence by direct descent to the present owner.
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