Birds of The Himalayas
A Century of Birds from the Himalayan Mountains 1830-1832
The earliest of Gould’s productions and published at his own expense, the eighty plates were drawn by Elizabeth Gould and were based on a collection of skins received by the Zoological Society of London, where Gould had been appointed Curator and Preserver in 1827 (Gould was an expert taxidermist).
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