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Agile Wallaby, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Agile Wallaby.

Kangaroos, complete set

By John Gould, 1841-1842

All 30 plates of Kangaroos as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 30 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

Limited to 50 sets, each numbered and embossed.

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Kangaroos

Contents

John Gould, 1841-1842

  1. Agile WallabyHalmaturus agilis
  2. Banded Jerboa KangarooBettongia fasciata
  3. Bennett’s WallabyHalmaturus bennettii
  4. Black WallabyHalmaturus ualabatus
  5. Black-gloved WallabyHalmaturus manicatus
  6. Black-striped WallabyHalmaturus dorsalis
  7. Bridled KangarooMacropus fraenatus
  8. Brush-tailed Rock WallabyPetrogale penicillata
  9. Derby’s WallabyHalmaturus derbianus
  10. Gilbert’s Rat KangarooHypsiprymnus gilbertii
  11. Great Grey KangarooMacropus major
  12. Great Red KangarooMacropus laniger
  13. Great Rock WallabyPetrogale robusta
  14. Grizzled Tree-KangarooDendrolagus inustus
  15. Hare KangarooLagorchestes leporoïdes
  16. Jerboa KangarooBettongia penicillata
  17. Nail-tailed KangarooMacropus unguifer
  18. Pademelon WallabyHalmaturus thetidis
  19. Parry’s WallabyHalmaturus parryi
  20. Red WallarooOsphranter antilopinus
  21. Rufous Jerboa-KangarooBettongia rufescens
  22. Rufous-necked WallabyHalmaturus ruficollis
  23. Short-eared Rock WallabyPetrogale brachyotis
  24. Sooty KangarooMacropus fuliginosus
  25. Spectacled Hare KangarooLagorchestes conspicillata
  26. Striped-sided Rock WallabyPetrogale lateralis
  27. Tasmanian Jerboa KangarooBettongia cuniculus
  28. Tasmanian WallabyHalmaturus billardieril
  29. Unadorned Rock WallabyPetrogale inornata
  30. Ursine Tree-KangarooDendrolagus ursinus

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

About the original

John Gould (1804-1881) published A Monograph of the Macropodidae, or Family of Kangaroos in 1841 and 1842, after his journey to Australia: 30 hand-coloured lithographs, a step away from his books on birds. Only there, he wrote, surrounded by objects ‘as strange as if I had been transported to another planet’, did he decide to study its mammals.

The plates range from the Great Grey and Great Red Kangaroo to rock wallabies, rat-kangaroos and two tree-kangaroos.

Title
Kangaroos
Published
1841-1842
Format
Imperial folio, 15 × 22 in
Plates
30

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