Dec 06, 2012 - Sale 2297
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Sale 2297 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 33,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
(BIRDS.) Gould, John; and Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands. Volumes 2-5 (of 5). 264 (of 320) hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic. Together, 4 volumes. Folio, 548x377 mm, contemporary 1/2 morocco gilt by Birdsall of Northampton, some wear to extremities, faint discoloration on Volume 5 covers; endleaves heavily foxed, varying foxing of text, light to moderate and mostly marginal foxing on around a quarter of the plates, the remainder generally clean. London, 1875-88
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first edition, completed by Sharpe after Gould's death. Nissen IVB 373. Noticeable foxing on plates 8, 14, 17, 30, 33, 34, 36, 39 in Volume 2; plates 3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 16, 19, 21, 24, 25, 35, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 56, 60, 61, 64, 65 in Volume 3; plates 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 16, 17, 39, 40, 41, 42, 49, 51, 54 in Volume 4; and plates 11, 15, 30, 32, 33, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 65, 66, 68, 70, 71 in Volume 5.