PRICE £1,000. A COMPLETE SET OF MR. GOULD'S MAGNIFICENT WORKS, Uniformly Printed in Imperial Folio Size, AND COMPRISING THE BIRDS OF EUROPE, with 449 coloured plates 5 Volumes 8 Volumes. 3 Volumes. THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, WITH THE SUPPLEMENT, 681 coloured plates THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN, with 367 coloured plates.. THE TROCHILIDÆ, or HUMMING BIRDS, WITH THE SUPPLEMENT, with 419 coloured plates THE RAMPHASTIDÆ, or FAMILY OF TOUCANS, with 52 coloured plates FORMING TOGETHER 43 VOLUMES IMPERIAL FOLIO. Uniformly bound in the Best Style, Green Morocco super-extra, THE WHOLE ENCLOSED IN TWO ELEGANTLY CARVED CABINETS, WITH PLATE-GLASS DOORS. *.* An Engraving of one of the Cabinets, showing the appearance of the Volumes when arranged therein, appears on the next page. The above Cabinets, with their contents, are suggested as exceedingly suitable for a handsome Testimonial or other Gift. FORMING TOGETHER 21 VOLUMES IMPERIAL FOLIO, UNIFORMLY BOUND IN THE BEST STYLE, MOROCCO SUPER-EXTRA, HANDSOMELY GOLD TOOLED, GILT EDGES, AND ENCLOSED IN AN ELEGANTLY CARVED CABINET, WITH PLATE-GLASS DOORS (AS IN THE ABOVE SKETCH). wwwwwww The above Cabinet, with its contents, is suggested as exceedingly suitable for a handsome Testimonial or other Gift. PRICE £190, Or, enclosed in a Mahogany Case, as annexed Design, £215. The Humming Birds, with Supplement, 6 Vols. 419 COLOURED PLATES, Together 11 Volumes, elegantly bound in morocco super-extra, gold borders and gilt edges. The above Cabinet, with its contents, is suggested as exceedingly suitable for a handsome Testimonial or other Gift. PRICE £145, Or, enclosed in a Mahogany Case, as annexed Design, £167 10s. The Birds of Asia, 7 Vols. 530 COLOURED PLATES, Elegantly bound in morocco super-extra, gold borders and gilt edges. The above Cabinet, with its contents, is suggested as exceedingly suitable for a handsome Testimonial or other Gift. Separate Copies of Mr. Gould's Works: each £3 38. THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN, comprising 367 Coloured £75 £85 Or superbly bound in whole morocco extra, gilt edges The publishers will also deliver this work to Subscribers for the whole, in one or more Parts at a time, to suit their convenience. Price £3 3s. each Part. "No work of greater beauty will be produced than that on which John Gould, returning in his later life to his first love, bestowed the fulness of his energy and the acme of his artistic talent. We allude to his 'Birds of Great Britain.' The care bestowed on the plates of this work was remarkable, the aim of the author being to produce a picture of the birds as they appeared in their Natural Haunts, and especial pains were bestowed on the Young, particularly those of the Wading-Birds and Natators. In this fine work most of the drawings were developed and placed on stone by Mr. W. HART, who also executed all the plates of the later works."-Nature, 1881. RECENTLY COMPLETED, UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF MR. BOWDLER SHARPE, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: THE BIRDS of ASIA, comprising 530 plates, most beautifully coloured Bound in 7 vols. new half morocco extra, gilt edges £120 £145 With the Thirty-fifth Part are issued complete Titles to the volumes; or in Mr. SHARPE'S words, "The Work has been arranged according to the classifications adopted by Mr. GOULD throughout his lifetime; and in giving Title-pages and Indexes to the Species, I have added the exact dates of publication for the benefit of Ornithologists who wish to quote the work."-August, 1883. The very few COMPLETE SETS it was possible to make up having been for some time disposed of, the work is now wholly out of print, and is rapidly becoming as scarce and valuable as Mr. Gould's other works. It only remains to state (what is well known to nearly all those acquainted with the subject) that Mr. Gould's death in no way interrupted the completion of the work with the same care which he took during his lifetime, the Publishers having carried it on to its conclusion by the agency of his whole staff of assistants and colourers, under the invaluable superintendence of Mr. BOWDLER SHARPE, of the British Museum, who had been his friend and "right hand " during the later years of his life. "To no portion of the globe (says the Author) does there attach so much interest as to that vast extent of the Old World which we designate Asia. That the Zoology, then, of such a country should have called forth the notice and study of able minds cannot be surprising; and yet it is remarkable that no one has attempted a work comprehending a general history of its ORNITHOLOGY. This hiatus the present publication is intended to fill up." THE TROGONIDÆ, or FAMILY of TROGONS. Second Edition, containing nearly 50 coloured plates, with copious Descriptions: New half morocco extra, gilt edges £12 12s. £14 14s. The present new edition comprises all the New Species, and information acquired respecting this family of Birds during the last twenty-five years. "The Trogons may dispute the palm of beauty with the Humming Birds. Their plumage in certain parts shines with metallic brilliancy, and exhibits all the colours of the rainbow."-Griffith's Edition of Cuvier. They are also remarkable for THE IMMENSE LENGTH OF THEIR TAILS. |