John Gould Pair Bird Prints

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John Gould Pair Bird Prints

These John Gould Pair Bird Prints, hand colored lithographs from the book ‘The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, Including Many New Species Recently Discovered in Australia’. This work was completed by R. Bowdler Sharpe, after Gould’s death.  Most recent bill of sale from W. Graham, Arader III Galleries, dated September 1996,  available upon request.

This pair of lithograths are:

Vol. 1 Plate 15  “12-Wired Bird of Paradise

Vol. 1 Plate 34  “Green Manucode”

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