Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369

Sale 2369 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GOULD, JOHN. Group of 16 lithographed plates of birds, extracted from John Gould's Birds of Great Britain, mainly falcons and other birds of prey with a few doves and sparrows, on full folio sheets, 550x365 mm; few small edge faults, generally clean and bright. Along with the standard Gould gilt green morocco bindings for volumes I and V, in broken condition including various text leaves. [London, 1860s-70s]

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Falco Gyrfalco Butalis Grisola Buteo Vulgaris Archibuteo Lagopus Falco Islandus Nyctale Tengmalmi Athene Noctua Neophron Percnopterus Scops Zorca Otocoris Alpestris Schaenicola Arundinacea Columba Oenas Palumbus Torquatus Nucifraga Caryocatactes Sternula Minuta Pagophila Eburnea.