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Blossom-headed Parrakeet, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Blossom-headed Parrakeet.

Birds of Asia, Vol. 6, complete set

By John Gould, 1849-1883

All 75 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.

  • 75 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. 2Blossom-headed Parrakeet
  2. 3Burmese Parrakeet
  3. 4Bonaparte’s Parrakeet
  4. 7Blue-winged Parrakeet
  5. 11Allied Parrakeet
  6. 15Little Racket-tailed Parrot
  7. 17Chinese Spotted Woodpecker
  8. 31Banded Pygmy Woodpecker
  9. 32Ceylonese Pygmy Woodpecker
  10. 44Hairy-browed Cuckoo
  11. 47Amethystine Cuckoo
  12. 59Branded Pigeon
  13. 64Whistling Sand-Grouse
  14. 65Banded Sand-Grouse
  15. 67Ceylon Spur-Fowl
  16. 73Bearded Partridge
  17. Collared Wood-Pigeon
  18. Coronetted Sand-Grouse
  19. Crimson-breasted Partridge
  20. Curl-crested Cuckoo
  21. Darjiling Pygmy Woodpecker
  22. Doerries’s Pygmy Woodpecker
  23. Elphinstone’s Wood-Pigeon
  24. Embroidered Barbet
  25. Emerald Cuckoo
  26. Formosan Bamboo-Partridge
  27. Formosan Green Woodpecker
  28. Formosan Spotted Woodpecker
  29. Franklin’s Barbet
  30. Georgian Black Grouse
  31. Great Racket-tailed Parrot
  32. Grey-headed Parrakeet
  33. Grey-headed Pygmy Woodpecker
  34. Hardwicke’s Pygmy Woodpecker
  35. Hartlaub’s Spotted Woodpecker
  36. Heart-spotted Woodpecker
  37. Indian Rock-Pigeon
  38. Indian Wryneck
  39. Javan Spotted Woodpecker
  40. Lerwa Partridge
  41. Malacca Parrakeet
  42. Malayan Piculet
  43. Malayan Pygmy Woodpecker
  44. Maroon-breasted Pigeon
  45. Mongolian Rock-Pigeon
  46. Mrs. Layard’s Parakeet
  47. Negros Yellow-faced Woodpecker
  48. Nicobar Parrakeet
  49. Orange-breasted Pygmy Woodpecker
  50. Otidiphaps
  51. Painted Spur-Fowl
  52. Pallas’s Sand-Grouse
  53. Philippine Racket-tailed Parrot
  54. Powerful Cuckoo
  55. Racket-tailed Parrot
  56. Ramsay’s Pygmy Woodpecker
  57. Red-breasted Pigeon
  58. Rufous Piculet
  59. Rufous Spur-Fowl
  60. Rufous-bellied Cuckoo
  61. Rufous-breasted Bamboo-Partridge
  62. Slaty-headed Parrakeet
  63. Sonnerat’s Pygmy Woodpecker
  64. Speckled Piculet
  65. Spotted Sand-Grouse
  66. Swinhoe’s Pygmy Woodpecker
  67. Temminck’s Pygmy Woodpecker
  68. The Earl of Derby’s Parrakeet
  69. Thibet Partridge
  70. Tibetian Short-toed Sand-Grouse
  71. Travancore Pygmy Woodpecker
  72. Vigors’s Pygmy Woodpecker
  73. White-bellied Pigeon
  74. Yellow-naped Woodpecker
  75. Yellow-rumped Honey-guide

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 6 of the seven, with 75 plates: parakeets and racket-tailed parrots, woodpeckers, piculets and barbets, cuckoos, pigeons, sandgrouse and partridges.

Title
Birds of Asia
Published
1849-1883
Format
Imperial folio, 15 × 22 in
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
75

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