John Gould | A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos, 1841-1842, 2 volumes

John Gould

A monograph of the Macropodidae, or family of kangaroos. London: published by the author, 1841-1842

FIRST EDITION, 2 original parts, folio (560 x 380mm.), 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates by H.C. Richter, printed by C. Hullmandel, original cloth-backed printed boards, occasional spotting

Gould intended this work to comprise three parts but it was never completed, and therefore no proper title-page or preliminaries were produced. Gould reprinted unchanged thirteen of the thirty plates in The Mammals of Australia (see lot 92), two other plates had small changes, but the remaining fifteen kangaroo plates were totally revised. He once described them as ''a most remarkable tribe of quadrupeds, many possessing extreme beauty''.

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

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Nissen ZBI 1662; Sauer 11; Wood, p. 365