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
Decorated Woodstar
$185
Heliodore’s Woodstar
$185
Short-tailed Woodstar
$185
Crimson-throated Woodstar
$185
Jourdan’s Woodstar
$185
Fanny’s Woodstar
$185
Yarrell’s Woodstar
$185
Cora’s Sheartail
$185
Evening Hummingbird
$185
Mexican Sheartail
$185
Bahama Woodstar
$185
Slender Sheartail
$185
Sparklingtail
$185
The Amethyst
$185
Mitchell’s Amethyst
$185
Marvellous Hummingbird
$185
White-booted Rackettail
$185
Ecuadorian Rackettail
$185
Peruvian Rackettail
$185
Red-booted Rackettail
$185
Scissor-tailed Rackettail
$185
Bogota Trainbearer
$185
Graceful Trainbearer
$185
Nouna Koali
$185
Trainbearer (1)
$185
Trainbearer (2)
$185
Blue-tailed Sylph
$185
Green-tailed Sylph
$185
The Sappho Comet
$185
The Phaon Comet
$185
Purple-tailed Comet
$185
Charles’s Comet
$185
Temminck’s Sapphire-wing
$185
Shining Sunbeam
$185
Castelnau’s Sunbeam
$185
Guerin’s Helmetcrest
$185
Linden’s Helmetcrest
$185
Columbian Thornbill
$185
Stanley’s Thornbill
$185
Southern Thornbill
$185
Herran’s Thornbill
$185
Red-capped Thornbill
$185
Thornbill
$185
Whittip
$185
Coppery Tail
$185
Brassy Tail
$185
Purple Tail
$185
Primoli’s Hummingbird
$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.