John Gould
1804-1881
A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds, the author, London, 1849-1861 (with supplement, 1880-1887)
Estimate $160,000 – $200,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY
John Gould
1804-1881
A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds, the author, London, 1849-1861 (with supplement, 1880-1887)
Six volumes, large folio (54.5 x 36cm), with 418 lithographic plates after drawings by John Gould, H.C. Richter and William Hart, finely hand-coloured under the supervision of Gabriel Bayfield. Uniform green morocco bindings, elaborately gilt-decorated. Some very minor foxing. Originally published in 25 parts (vols 1 - 5 1849 - 1861, 360 plates), plus 5-part supplement (vol.6,1880 - 1887, 58 plates) Gould died after publication of the second part of the supplement in 1881, the text of which was completed by R. Bowdler Sharpe, with illustrations by Hart and the publication supervised by Osbert Salvin.
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Provenance
Marcel Jeanson (1885-1942), France
Bibliotheque Marcel Jeanson: Deuxieme Partie: Ornithologie, Sotheby's, Monaco, 16 June 1988, lot 38, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney
Literature
'Recent Ornithological Publications', Ibis, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1862, pp. 72-74
Jean Anker, Bird Books and Bird Art: An Outline of the Literary History and Iconography of Descriptive Ornithology Based Principally on the Collection of Books Containing Plates with Figures of Birds and Their Eggs Now in the University Library at Copenhagen and Including a Catalogue of These Works, Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1938, p. 182
Elliot Coues, 'Addendum to Trochilidae', (Ornithological Bibliography) (4 vols.), Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1878-1880, pp. 690-692
Claus Nissen, Die Illustrierten Vogelbucher: ihre Geshichte und Bibliographie, Hiersemann Verlag, Stuttgart, 1953, no. 380, p. 119
Sacheverell Sitwell, Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher,Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 (rev. ed.), Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1990, pp. 35-40, 102
Gordon C. Sauer, John Gould the Bird Man: A Chronology and Bibliography, Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne, 1982, no. 16, pp. 64-66
Isabella Tree, The Bird Man: The Extraordinary Story of John Gould, Ebury Press, London, 1991, pp. 157-170
J.T. Zimmer, Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, pp. 263-264
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