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Item #8676 Gallus Sonneratii [Grey Junglefowl]. Joseph WOLF.

WOLF, Joseph (1820-1899)

Gallus Sonneratii [Grey Junglefowl]

New York: Published for the Author, Daniel Giraud Elliot, [1870]-1872. Hand-coloured lithograph after Joseph Wolf by J. Smit and J.G. Keulmans, printed by P.W.M. Trap. Very good condition. Image size (including text): 15 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 23 1/4 inches.

A beautiful image from the most splendid of Elliot's great monographs, 'A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants'.

The magnificent size and beautiful colouring of the plates after Joseph Wolf's charcoal drawings reflect the importance which Elliot attached to the Phasianidae. Of all the families in the ornithological system, he regarded it as the one most vital to the human race, "containing within it the species that afford food for thousands of mankind, and also those which are the original source of all the domestic poultry met with throughout the civilized world."

Cf. Anker 130; Fine Birds Books (1990), p. 95; Nissen IVB 295; Wood p. 331; Zimmer p. 206.

Item #8676

Price: $4,000.00

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