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
Leadbeater’s Brilliant
$185
Black-capped Hummingbird
$185
Brazilian Wood Nymph
$185
Waterton’s Wood Nymph
$185
Cayenne Wood Nymph
$185
Refulgent Wood Nymph
$185
Tschudi’s Wood Nymph
$185
Black-banded Wood Nymph
$185
Veraguan Wood Nymph
$185
Columbian Wood Nymph
$185
Green-crowned Wood Nymph
$185
Brazilian Wood Nymph
$185
Wagler’s Wood Nymph
$185
Jardine’s Panoplites
$185
Yellow-fronted Panoplites
$185
Matthews’ Panoplites
$185
Jacobin
$185
Great Jacobin
$185
Pied Jacobin
$185
Snow-cap
$185
Tufted Coquette
$185
Gould’s Coquette
$185
Frilled Coquette
$185
Great-crested Coquette
$185
De Lattres’s Coquette
$185
Spangled Coquette
$185
Festive Coquette
$185
Peruvian Coquette
$185
Racket-tail
$185
Popelaires Thorn-tail
$185
Langsdorff’s Thorn-tail
$185
Convers’ Thorn-tail
$185
Letitia
$185
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
$185
Purple-throated Hummingbird
$185
Little Hummingbird
$185
Costa’s Calypte
$185
Anna’s Calypte
$185
Helena’s Calypte
$185
Rufous Flamebearer
$185
Little Flamebearer
$185
Floresi’s Flamebearer
$185
Broad-tailed Flamebearer
$185
Heloisa’s Flamebearer
$185
Mexican Satellite
$185
Mexican Star
$185
Beautiful Woodstar
$185
Mulsant’s Woodstar
$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.