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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Collection of Martin Copley AM
• Sale Date:
  22 Oct 2017 ~ 2pm
• Lot #:
  42
• Lot Description:
  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.
• Notes:
  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.
• Estimate:
  A$120,000 - 140,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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