Tropical Birds from plates by John Gould

Description:

With an introduction and notes on the plates by Sacheverell Sitwell. Reproduces some of the finest and most interesting plates in full colour from John Gould's Birds of New Guinea, together with a selection from Gould's other works.

Condition

Vg in d/w. From the library of Keith Hyatt (d. 2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, and prominent member of the London Natural History Society, with his name to front pastedown (concealed beneath d/w flap).