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(NATURAL HISTORY.) John Gould. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans. [Bound with:] Supplement to the First Edition... Two works bound in one. Uncolored anatomical plate and 53 vividly hand-colored lithographed plates of tropical toucans by Edward Lear and John and Elizabeth Gould. Folio, 21 1/2x14 1/2 inches, richly tooled and lettered publisher's morocco, in need of re-casing and small repairs; plates on guards; scattered foxing, one plate with offset toning. Provenance: French naturalist Alfred Malherbe, with his neat manuscript classification annotations to most plates. London, 1834; 1855
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