John Gould | A century of birds from the Himalayan mountains, 1832

John Gould

A century of birds from the Himalayan mountains. London: 1832

Second issue, folio (528 x 350mm.), 80 hand-coloured lithographed plates with backgrounds coloured, contemporary green half morocco

"You will probably recollect that in my first work... neither the plants or Backgrounds were coloured; In order to render the Series of my Publications complete... I have had those parts coloured in the few copies I have left" (reprinted in Sauer).

Rare second issue of Gould's first major folio, with the backgrounds exquisitely coloured. The Himalayan birds were sketched by Gould, and then transferred to the plates by his wife, Elizabeth.

For more information about Gould, please refer to Lot 88.

LITERATURE:

Anker 168; Fine Bird Books, p. 77; Nissen IVB 374; Sauer 1