2 parts in 1 volume, 10 leaves of plates : illustrations (lithographs) ; 57 x 39 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Date:
1880
1881
1880-1881
Notes:
Cover title.
No more published.
"There appears to be some uncertainty as to the actual publication of the final 10 sheets without plates [Pt. II]. These were written by Gould but edited by Sharpe ... The remaining pages may have been sold by the printer without authority."--Cf. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Chicago, 1926. page 263.
"The illustrations are principally taken from the author's works on 'Birds of Asia;' 'Australia,' and 'New Guinea.'"
Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
Plates signed J. Gould & W. Hart (or, H.C. Richter) del et lith; Walter Imp.
Plates are hand-colored.
Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., page 263
Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, 377
Also available online.
SCNHRB copy (39088015715717) stamped on front cover: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Oct 6 1915 [ms. acc. no.] 233116.
SCNHRB copy has Sotheran & Co. catalog (London, 1915), listing this title, tipped-in before Part II.
SCNHRB copy has original blue-green printed pictorial wrappers, with green printed paper covers; housed in a linen-covered drop-back box.
