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Greater Bird of Paradise, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Greater Bird of Paradise.

Birds of Paradise, complete set

By Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1873

All 35 plates of Birds of Paradise as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 35 plates, each 18½ × 23½ in
  • A title page and a contents page with the titles of all plates
  • A Solander box in linen with gold lettering, in the colour and lettering you choose
  • A certificate of authenticity

Limited to 50 sets, each numbered and embossed.

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Birds of Paradise

Contents

Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1873

  1. 1Greater Bird of Paradise
  2. 2Marquis Raggi’s Bird of Paradise
  3. 3Lesser Bird of Paradise
  4. 4Red Bird of Paradise
  5. 5Green Manucode
  6. 6Glossy-mantled Manucode
  7. 7Keraudrens Manucode
  8. 8Arfak Astrapia
  9. 9Six-plumed Bird of Paradise
  10. 10Superb Bird of Paradise
  11. 11Magnificent Bird of Paradise
  12. 12Golden-winged Bird of Paradise
  13. 13Wilson’s Bird of Paradise
  14. 14Golden Bird of Paradise
  15. 15King Bird of Paradise
  16. 16Long tailed Paradigalla
  17. 17Wallaces Standardwing
  18. 18Great Sickle-bill bird
  19. 19Elliot’s Sicklebill
  20. 20D’Albertis Bird of Paradise
  21. 21Twelve-wire Paradise Bird
  22. 22Magnificent Riflebird
  23. 23Prince Albert’s Rifle Bird
  24. 24Paradise Riflebird
  25. 25Victorias Riflebird
  26. 26Regent Bird
  27. 27Satin Bowerbird
  28. 28Rawnsley’s Satin Bird
  29. 29Spotted Bowerbird
  30. 30Great Grey Bowerbird
  31. 31Buff-breasted Bower-bird
  32. 32Yellow-breasted Bower-bird
  33. 33Green Catbird
  34. 35White-eared Catbird
  35. 36Vogelkop Bowerbird

The contents page in the box lists every plate. Each title opens the single print.

About the original

Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) published A Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise in 1873: hand-coloured lithographs drawn by Joseph Wolf, put on stone by Joseph Smit and coloured by J. D. White, who had to render the metallic sheen of the plumage.

Elliot dedicated the book to Alfred Russel Wallace, to whom he owed ‘nearly all our information regarding the habits of many species’.

Title
Birds of Paradise
Published
1873
Format
Folio, 18½ × 23½ in
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
35

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