BIRDS OF ASIA. ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE LITHOGRAPHS OF JOHN IN SOUTH AFRICA

About the product Large squarish 8vo; original pale grey cloth; spine lettered in gilt; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 321; 160 full-page colour illustrations. Dustwrapper a little sunned; tape marks to endpapers and dustwrapper flaps; endpapers and page edges somewhat foxed, sporadic spotting elsewhere. Good to very good."The modern text for this edition, Birds of Asia, has been written by Adam Rutgers, and it demonstrates just how accurate were John Gould's illustrations - despite the general lack of ornithological knowledge in the mid-nineteenth century." Birds of Asia. Illustrations from the Lithographs of John Gould (Books)