Dec 13, 2001 - Sale 1920

Sale 1920 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 74,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 75,000 - $ 85,000
(BIRDS.) Gould, John. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae or Family of Toucans. Monograph containing 33 hand-colored lithographed plates finished with gum arabic, after studies made by J. and E. Gould and Edward Lear, plus one uncolored plate of bird parts. Folio, beautiful deep green morocco, gilt-embellished with repeating floral motifs, backstrip with 6 compartments (2 lettered, the others with repeating floral motifs), by Kurt Gaebel & Sons; plates are exceptionally clean, a few with the slightest offsetting from the text; ink stamp on verso of title (North Devon Athenaeum - bequeathed by H. H. Sharland); 1/4 morocco slipcase * Supplement to the First Edition of a Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Toucans.<> 2 volumes, containing 20 hand-colored lithographed plates finished with gum arabic. Folio, 1/4 cloth and original lettered boards, backstrip defective on one, the other volume rebacked and retipped; plates generally very clean, 3 or 4 plates with slight foxing (near the sheet edges), preliminary and terminal text and endpapers foxed; ownership identification as above; folding morocco slipcase uniform with the binding of the Monograph.<\t>London, 1833-35; 1855
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