Name: Auction: Gould, John Owls: 5 original lithographs from The Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 478 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Our September 2023 auction of&nbsp;Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs&nbsp;features an array of important autograph letters by figures including Charles Babbage, Oliver Cromwell and Leibniz, a copy of Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio and a newly discovered first edition of&nbsp;The Hobbit.It also includes a single-owner collection of books on gunnery and field sports, an extensive collection of original prints from John Gould’s&nbsp;Birds of Great Britain, and a book from the library of Adam Smith.

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all hand-coloured, heightened in gum arabic, approx. dimensions 37 x 55.5cm, toning, ink-stamps of Newcastle-upon-Tyne public libraries to versos. Comprising: 1) Brachyotus palustris (short-eared owl); 2) Surnia ulula (northern hawk-owl); 3) Otus vulgaris (long-eared owl); 4) Nyctale tengmalmi (Tengmalm's owl); 5) Scops zorca (Scops owl), with finger-soiling to lower right corner and small crease to lower left

Gould, John

Owls: 5 original lithographs from The Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73

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