Accession number
PML 198467
Creator
Gould, John, 1804-1881, author.
Published
London : Published by the author, 26, Charlotte Street Bedford Square, 1865.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2019.
Description
2 volumes (viii, 636, 629 pages) ; 26 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Henry Sotheran & Co. in 1899 along with The birds of Australia and related works, 49 volumes altogether. Donated by him in memory of his father to the Wadsworth Atheneum sometime after 1908, with his gift bookplate. Deaccessioned and sold at Christie's, 11 April 1980, lot 170, and purchased with the other Gould works by Stephen Massey bidding for J. N. Bartfield Books.
Summary
Intended by the author to serve as "a kind of handbook" to his folio work The birds of Australia, published in 1848. See Introduction, v.1, page 6, and Preface, v. 1, page v: "During that period [since publication of The birds of Australia] many new species have been discovered, and much additional information acquired respecting those comprised therein; consequently it appeared to me that a careful résumé of the entire subject would be acceptable to the possessors of the former edition, as well as to the many persons in Australia who are now turning their attention to the ornithology of the country in which they are resident."
Binding
Gilt-tooled black pebble grain morocco, all edges gilt.
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