[GOULD, JOHN] WOLF, JOSEPH AND HART, WILLIAM MATTHEW. (ARTISTS & LITHOGRAPHERS).

Lobiophasis Bulweri, Sharpe. [Bulwer's Pheasant]

[London]. Walter, [ 1875]. Stock ID #174361

Fine hand coloured lithograph heightened with gum arabic, 53.8 x 36.8cm (plate size), 55.7 x 38.7cm (sheet size), toning at the plate mark and to the margins, verso of the plate browned, but the face of the plate clean and unmarked, small tear to the inner margin not affecting the plate. A very good example.

Magnificent plate (no.13) from the 7th and final volume of John Gould's magisterial "Birds of Asia" published over a twenty-three year period, 1850-1883.

"Numerous as have been the acquisitions rendered to ornithology during the last few years by the opening up of the great countries of China, Yunnan, and the vast territories lying between our Indian frontier and the Celestial Empire here has not been one fraught with greater interest than the fine Pheasant figured in the accompanying Plate.

This beautiful bird is a native of Borneo and at first sight it might seem as if it might have been kept in one or other of the genera of gallinaceous birds...but on closer inspection it will be found to differ not only from these birds but from every from of Pheasant yet discovered; and I quite agree with Mr Sharpe who has had the honour of describing this magnificent species, that its generic separation was necessary." (John Gould, from the text to accompany the plate).

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Price: $1,500.00 AU

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