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Wedge-tailed Eagle, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Wedge-tailed Eagle.

The Birds of Australia, complete set

By John Gould, 1840-1848

All 140 plates of The Birds of Australia, in 2 volumes, as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 140 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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The Birds of Australia

Contents

John Gould, 1840-1848

The Birds of Australia, Vol. 1

  1. 1Wedge-tailed EagleAquila fucosa
  2. 2Little Australian EagleAquila morphnoides
  3. 3White-Bellied Sea EagleIchthyiaetus leucogaster
  4. 4White-breasted Sea EagleHaliaster leucosternis
  5. 5Whistling EagleHaliaster sphenurus
  6. 6White-headed OspreyPandion leucocephalus
  7. 7Grey FalconFalcon hypoleucus
  8. 8Black-cheeked FalconFalco melanogenys
  9. 9Black FalconFalco subniger
  10. 10White-fronted FalconFalco frontatus
  11. 11Brown HawkIeracidea berigora
  12. 12Western Brown HawkIeracidea occidentalis
  13. 13Nankeen KestrilTinnunculus cencroide
  14. 14New Holland GoshawkAstur novae-hollandiae
  15. 15White GoshawkAstur novae
  16. 16Radiated GoshawkAstur radiatus
  17. 17Australian GoshawkAstur approximans
  18. 18West Australian GoshawkAstur cruentus
  19. 19Collard Sparrow HawkAccipiter torquatus
  20. 20Black-breasted BuzzardButeo melanosternon
  21. 21Allied KiteMilvus affinis
  22. 22Square-tailed KiteMilvus isurus
  23. 23Black-shouldered KiteElanus axillaris
  24. 24Letter-winged KiteElanus scriptus
  25. 25Crested HawkLepidogenys subcristatus
  26. 26Allied HarrierCircus assimilis
  27. 27Jardine’s HarrierCircus jardinii
  28. 28Chestnut-faced OwlStrix castanops
  29. 29Masked Barn OwlStrix personata
  30. 30Sooty OwlStrix tenebricosus
  31. 31Delicate OwlStrix delicatulus
  32. 32Boobook OwlAthene boobook
  33. 33Spotted OwlAthene maculata
  34. 34Winking OwlAthene connivens
  35. 35Powerful OwlAthene strenua
  36. 36Rufous OwlAthene rufa

The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2

  1. 1Owlet NightjarAegotheles novae-hollandiae
  2. 2White-bellied Owlet NightjarAegotheles leucogaster
  3. 3Tawny-shoulderd PodargusPodargus humeralis
  4. 4Curvier’s PodargusPodargus cuvieri
  5. 5Moth-plumaged PodargusPodargus phalaenoides
  6. 6Plumed PodargusPodargus plumiferus
  7. 7White-throated Goat-suckerEurostopodus albogularis
  8. 8Spotted Goat-suckerEurostopodus guttatus
  9. 9Large-tailed Goat-suckerCaprimulgus macrurus
  10. 10Australian Spine-tailed SwallowAcanthylis caudacus
  11. 11Australian SwiftCypselus australis
  12. 12White-breasted SwallowAtticora leucosternon
  13. 13Welcome SwallowHirundo neoxena
  14. 14Tree MartinCollocalia arborea
  15. 15Fairy MartinCollocalia ariel
  16. 16Australian Bee-eaterMerops arnatus
  17. 17Australian RollerEurystomus australis
  18. 18Great Brown KingfisherDacelo gigantea
  19. 19Leach’s KingfisherDacelo leachii
  20. 20Fawn-breasted KingfisherDacelo cervina
  21. 21Sacred HalcyonHalcyon sanctus
  22. 22Red-Backed HalcyonHalcyon pyrrhopygia
  23. 23Sordid HalcyonHalcyon sordidus
  24. 24MacLeay’s HalcyonHalcyon macleayii
  25. 25Azure KingfisherAlcyone azurea
  26. 26Little KingfisherAlcyone pusilla
  27. 27Wood SwallowArtamus sordidus
  28. 28Little Wood SwallowArtamus minor
  29. 29Grey-breasted Wood SwallowArtamus cinereus
  30. 30White-vented Wood SwallowArtamus albiventris
  31. 31Masked Wood SwallowArtamus personatus
  32. 32White-eyebrowed Wood SwallowArtamus superciliosus
  33. 33White-rumped Wood SwallowArtamus leucopygialis
  34. 34Swallow DicaeumDicaeum hirundiaceum
  35. 35Spotted PardalotePardalotus punctatus
  36. 36Red-lored PardalotePardalotus rubricatus
  37. 37Forty-spotted PardalotePardalotus quadragintus
  38. 38Striated PardalotePardalotus striatus
  39. 39Allied PardalotePardalotus affinis
  40. 40Black-headed PardalotePardalotus melanocephalus
  41. 41Yellow-rumped PardalotePardalotus uropigialis
  42. 42Great Crow-ShrikeStrepera graculina
  43. 43Sooty Crow-ShrikeStrepera fuliginosa
  44. 44Hill Crow-ShrikeStrepera arguta
  45. 45Grey Crow-ShrikeStrepera anaphonensis
  46. 46Piping Crow-ShrikeGymnorphina tibican
  47. 47White-backed Crow-ShrikeGymnorphina leuconota
  48. 48Tasmanian Crow-ShrikeGymnorphina organicum
  49. 49Black Throated Crow-ShrikeCracticus nigrogularis
  50. 50Pied Crow-ShrikeCracticus picatus
  51. 51Silvery-backed Butcher-BirdCracticus argenteus
  52. 52Butcher-BirdCracticus destructor
  53. 53Quoy’s Crow-ShrikeCracticus quoyii
  54. 54Pied GrallinaGranilla australis
  55. 55Back-faced GraucalusGraucalus melanops
  56. 56Varied GraucalusGraucalus mentalis
  57. 57White-bellied GraucalusGraucalus hypoleucus
  58. 58Swainson’s GraucalusGraucalus swainsonii
  59. 59Ground GraucalusPteropodocys phasianella
  60. 60Jardin’s CampephagaCampephaga jardinii
  61. 61Northern CampephagaCampephaga karu
  62. 62Black and White CampephagaCampephaga leucomela
  63. 63White-shouldered CampephagaCampephaga humeralis
  64. 64Guttural PachycephalaPachycephala gutturalis
  65. 65Grey-tailed PachycephalaPachycephala glaucura
  66. 66Black-tailed PachycephalaPachycephala melanura
  67. 67Banded ThickheadPachycephala pectoralis
  68. 68Lunated PachycephalaPachycephala falcata
  69. 69Shrike-like PachycephalaPachycephala lanoïdes
  70. 70Red-throated PachycephalaPachycephala rufogularis
  71. 71Gilbert’s PachycephalaPachycephala gilbertii
  72. 72Plain-coloured PachycephalaPachycephala simplex
  73. 73Olivaceous PachycephalaPachycephala olivacea
  74. 74Harmonious ColluricinclaColluricincla harmonica
  75. 75Buff-bellied ColluricinclaColluricincla rufiventris
  76. 76Brown ColluricinclaColluricincla brunnea
  77. 77Selby’s ColluricinclaColluricincla selbii
  78. 78Little ColluricinclaColluricincla parvula
  79. 79Frontal Shrike-TitFalcunculus frontatus
  80. 80White-bellied Shrike-TitFalcunculus leucogaster
  81. 81Crested OreoicaOreoïca gutturalis
  82. 82Spangled DrongoDicrurus bracteatus
  83. 83White-shafted Fantail
  84. 84Rufous-fronted Fantail
  85. 85Northern Fantail
  86. 86Black Fantailed Flycather
  87. 87Restless Flycather
  88. 88Blue Shining Flycather
  89. 89Plumbeous Flycather
  90. 90Pretty Flycather
  91. 91Shining Flycather
  92. 92Broad-billed Flycather
  93. 93Great-winged Microeca
  94. 94Yellow-bellied Microeca
  95. 95Carinated Flycatcher
  96. 96Black-fronted Flycatcher
  97. 97White-throated Flycatcher
  98. 98Fucous Gerygone
  99. 99Western Gerygone
  100. 100Great-billed Gerygone
  101. 101Buff-breasted Gerygone
  102. 102Green-backed Gerygone
  103. 103Short-billed Smicrornis
  104. 104Yellow-tinted Smicrornis

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 Australia between 1840 and 1848: seven volumes with 600 hand-coloured lithographs, the first comprehensive survey of the continent’s birds. Gould and his wife Elizabeth collected in Australia from 1838; she drew 84 plates before her death in 1841, and H. C. Richter worked most of the rest up from her drawings.

Title
The Birds of Australia
Published
1840-1848
Format
Imperial folio, 15 × 22 in
Plates in this set
140

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