Birds of Paradise
By Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1835-1915
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) published A Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise in 1873: hand-coloured lithographs drawn by Joseph Wolf, put on stone by Joseph Smit and coloured by J. D. White, who had to render the metallic sheen of the plumage.
Elliot dedicated the book to Alfred Russel Wallace, to whom he owed ‘nearly all our information regarding the habits of many species’.
- Published
- 1873
- Format
- Folio
- Sheet
- 18½ × 23½ in, original size
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 35 prints
All 35 prints
35 prints
Greater Bird of Paradise
$225
Marquis Raggi’s Bird of Paradise
$225
Lesser Bird of Paradise
$225
Red Bird of Paradise
$225
Green Manucode
$225
Glossy-mantled Manucode
$225
Keraudrens Manucode
$225
Arfak Astrapia
$225
Six-plumed Bird of Paradise
$225
Superb Bird of Paradise
$225
Magnificent Bird of Paradise
$225
Golden-winged Bird of Paradise
$225
Wilson’s Bird of Paradise
$225
Golden Bird of Paradise
$225
King Bird of Paradise
$225
Long tailed Paradigalla
$225
Wallaces Standardwing
$225
Great Sickle-bill bird
$225
Elliot’s Sicklebill
$225
D’Albertis Bird of Paradise
$225
Twelve-wire Paradise Bird
$225
Magnificent Riflebird
$225
Prince Albert’s Rifle Bird
$225
Paradise Riflebird
$225
Victorias Riflebird
$225
Regent Bird
$225
Satin Bowerbird
$225
Rawnsley’s Satin Bird
$225
Spotted Bowerbird
$225
Great Grey Bowerbird
$225
Buff-breasted Bower-bird
$225
Yellow-breasted Bower-bird
$225
Green Catbird
$225
White-eared Catbird
$225
Vogelkop Bowerbird
$225
The complete set
Birds of Paradise is also available as a complete set: every plate we hold, as a facsimile at the original size, with a title page, a contents page and a certificate, in a Solander box.
Limited to 50 sets. Price on request.