The Mammals of Australia: Iconic Plates, Extinct Species

Gould, John. The mammals of Australia. London, [1843]-63. Three…
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Gould, John. The mammals of Australia. London, [1843]-63. Three volumes large folio, with 182 hand-coloured lithographed plates by the author, Elizabeth Gould and H.C. Richter, contemporary dark green morocco, sides with wide gilt borders, spines fully gilt, gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf. A little foxing, affecting only a few plates. A fine set of the first survey of the subject, including wonderful plates, some of which have become iconic images. Gould writes in his introduction that ' it was not until I arrived in the country and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet, that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna '. More than twenty of the species depicted have become extinct.

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