GOULD (JOHN) AND RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE
The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, Including Many New Species Recently Discovered in Australia, 25 original parts, FIRST EDITION, 320 hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after Gould and W. Hart, some heightened in gum arabic, publisher's 'Binding Notice' tipped into final part, occasional light spotting to a few plates and endpapers, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards with wood-engraved illustration of a Bird of Paradise on the upper covers, some light spotting [Anker 181; Ferguson 10033; Fine Bird Books p.78; Nissen IVB 373; Wood p.365; Zimmer p.262], folio, Henry Sotheran, 1875-1888
Footnotes:
FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL 25 PARTS. The last, and one of the most lavish, of Gould's full-scale works, the subjects including birds of paradise, kingfishers, parrots, honey-eaters, pitas, birds of prey, and other species. The last 12 parts were seen through to completion by the ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe after Gould's death in 1881.
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