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Black Vulture, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Black Vulture.

Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, complete set

By John Gould, 1849-1883

All 76 plates of Birds of Asia as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 76 plates, each at the size of the original sheet
  • 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

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Birds of Asia

Contents

John Gould, 1849-1883

  1. 1Black Vulture
  2. 2Bengal Vulture
  3. 3Shaheen FalconFalco peregrinator, no 3
  4. 4Red-naped Falcon
  5. 5Saker Falcon
  6. 6Lanner Falcon
  7. 7Jugger Falcon
  8. 8White-winged Red-footed Kestrel
  9. 9Rufous-breasted Spilornis
  10. 10Black-and-white Crested Eagle
  11. 11Govinda Kite
  12. 12Celebean Elanus
  13. 13Indian Scops Owl
  14. 14Bay Owl
  15. 15Brodie’s Owlet
  16. 16Speckled Wood-Owl
  17. 17Indian Screech Owl
  18. 18Grass Owl
  19. 19Mahratta Nightjar
  20. 20Palm Roof-Swift
  21. 21Crested Tree-Swift
  22. 22Klecho Tree-Swift
  23. 23Wallace’s Tree-Swift
  24. 24Bearded Tree-Swift
  25. 25Hooded Tree-Swift
  26. 26Wire-tailed Swallow
  27. 27Western Mosque-Swallow
  28. 28Daurian Mosque-Swallow
  29. 29Indian Mosque-Swallow
  30. 30Ceylonese Mosque-Swallow
  31. 31Nepal Martin-Swallow
  32. 32Bungalow Swallow
  33. 33Indian Cliff-Swallow
  34. 34Pirik Bee-eater
  35. 35Hurrial Bee-eater
  36. 36Philippine Bee-eater
  37. 37Blue-throated Nyctiornis
  38. 38Red-throated Nyctiornis
  39. 39Forsten’s Bee-eater
  40. 40Hombron’s Kingfisher
  41. 41Lindsay’s Kingfisher
  42. 42Sumatra Kingfisher
  43. 43Indian Kingfisher
  44. 44Manilla Kingfisher
  45. 45Black-capped Kingfisher
  46. 46Black-and-white Kingfisher
  47. 47Many-coloured Kingfisher
  48. 48Banded Kingfisher
  49. 49Black-faced Kingfisher
  50. 50Tenasserim Kingfisher
  51. 51Mantled Kingfisher
  52. 52Great Alcedo
  53. 53Indian Kingfisher
  54. 54Indian Roller
  55. 55Burmesec Roller
  56. 56Temminck’s Roller
  57. 57Javan Eurylaime
  58. 58Hooded Eurylaime
  59. 59Great-billed Eurylaime
  60. 60Allied Eurylaime
  61. 61Great Eurylaime
  62. 62Lunated Eurylaime
  63. 63Red-backed Eurylaime
  64. 64Dalhousie’s Eurylaime
  65. 65Steere’s Broadbill
  66. 66Indian Hoopoe
  67. 67Duvaucel’s Trogon
  68. 68Malacca Trogon
  69. 69Hodgson’s Trogon
  70. 70Diard’s Trogon
  71. 71Mountain Trogon
  72. 72Reinwardt’s Trogon
  73. 73Macklot’s Trogon
  74. 74Kasumba Trogon
  75. 75Fasciated Trogon
  76. 76Rosy-breasted Trogon

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

About the original

John Gould (1804-1881) published The Birds of Asia in 35 parts between 1849 and 1883: 530 hand-coloured lithographs by Gould, Joseph Wolf, Henry Constantine Richter and William Matthew Hart. It took 34 years, longer than any of his other works, and Richard Bowdler Sharpe completed it after Gould’s death.

Volume 1 of the seven, with 76 plates. The parts were sorted into volumes afterwards, following Gould’s classification; this one holds birds of prey and owls, swifts and swallows, bee-eaters, kingfishers, rollers, broadbills and trogons.

Title
Birds of Asia
Published
1849-1883
Format
Imperial folio
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
76

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