Family of Hummingbirds
By John Gould, 1804-1881
John Gould (1804-1881) published A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds between 1849 and 1861: five volumes with 360 hand-coloured lithographs. Most plates show two or three birds among plants, at least one of them in flight to show the colour of its feathers.
- Published
- 1849-1861
- Format
- Imperial folio
- Sheet
- 15 × 22 in, original size
- Volumes
- 4
- In our collection
- 280 prints
All 280 prints
280 prints
Sombre Sabrewing
$185
Fawn-breasted Sabrewing
$185
Rufous-breasted Sabrewing (1)
$185
Cuvier’s Sabrewing
$185
Owen’s Sabrewing
$185
Sombre Hummingbird
$185
Puce-throated Hummingbird
$185
Buff-breasted Leucippus
$185
Pied-tail
$185
Bluebreast
$185
The Rivoli
$185
Blue-Throated Cazique
$185
De Rham’s Garnet
$185
Henry De Lattre’s Cazique
$185
Rufous-breasted Sabrewing (2)
$185
Blackeared Hummingbird
$185
Xantus Hummingbird
$185
Crimson Topaz
$185
Fiery Topaz
$185
Chimborazian Hillstar
$185
Pichinchian Hillstar
$185
Estella’s Hillstar
$185
White-sided Hillstar
$185
Black-breasted Hillstar
$185
Adela’s Hillstar
$185
The Mango
$185
Prevost’s Mango
$185
Veraguan Mango
$185
Green-throated Mango
$185
Blue-tailed Mango
$185
Domingo Mango
$185
St. Thomas’s Mango
$185
Porphyry-tailed Mango
$185
Purple-breasted Carib
$185
Green-breasted Carib
$185
Grass-green-breasted Carib
$185
Buff-tailed Velvet-breast
$185
White-tailed Velvet-breast
$185
Blue-fronted Lancebill
$185
Green-fronted Lancebill
$185
Buffon’s Plumeleteer
$185
Golden-tailed Plumeleteer
$185
Blue-breasted Plumeleteer
$185
Emerald-fronted Hummingbird
$185
Schreibers’ Hummingbird
$185
Green-crowned Brilliant
$185
Jameson’s Brilliant
$185
Otera Brilliant
$185
Complete sets
Family of Hummingbirds is also available as complete sets, one for each volume, with every plate at the original size, a title page, a contents page and a certificate, in a Solander box.
Limited to 50 sets. Price on request.