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
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
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
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.