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Adams’s Mountain Finch, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Adams’s Mountain Finch.

Birds of Asia, Vol. 5, complete set

By John Gould, 1849-1883

All 25 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.

  • 25 plates, each 15 × 22 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

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Birds of Asia

Contents

John Gould, 1849-1883

  1. 1Adams’s Mountain Finch
  2. 2Northern Mountain Finch
  3. 3Red-rumped Mountain Finch
  4. 4Brown-naped Mountain Finch
  5. 5Red-necked Mountain Finch
  6. 6Grey-capped Bunting
  7. 7Dwarf Bunting
  8. 8Cinereous Bunting
  9. 9Painted Bunting
  10. 10Rustic Bunting
  11. 11Hutton’s Bunting
  12. 12Elegant Bunting
  13. 13Black-headed Bunting
  14. 14Red-headed Bunting
  15. 15Turkestan Sparrow
  16. 16Burton’s Grosbeak
  17. 46Formosan Blue Pie
  18. 47Nepaulese Blue Pie
  19. 48Chinese Blue Pie
  20. 49Great-billed Blue Pie
  21. 50Yellow billed Blue Pie
  22. 51White capped Blue Pie
  23. 55White-winged Magpie
  24. 56Affgahn Magpie
  25. 57Bootan Magpie

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 5 of the seven, with 83 plates. Shown here are mountain finches and buntings, the Turkestan Sparrow and Burton’s Grosbeak, and blue pies and magpies from Formosa to Afghanistan.

Title
Birds of Asia
Published
1849-1883
Format
Imperial folio, 15 × 22 in
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
25

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