John Gould (3) (1804–1881)
Autore di John Gould's Hummingbirds
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Fonte dell'immagine: John Gould FRS, by T.H. Maguire. Wikimedia Commons.
Opere di John Gould
Birds of Europe. Vol.1 3 copie
The best of Gould's mammals : selections from Mammals of Australia, volumes I, II and III (1984) 3 copie
Die Vögel Europas. Eindrucksvolle Lithografien aus dem Höhepunkt des Schaffens von John Gould (2002) 3 copie
Birds of Europe. Vol.2 2 copie
Les oiseaux, tome IV 2 copie
Les oiseaux, Tome I 1 copia
Les oiseaux, Tome V 1 copia
Die Vögel Großbritanniens 1 copia
Die Vögel Großbritanniens. Einführung, Tafelerläuterungen und synoptische Register von Armin Geus. (1979) 1 copia
Die Vögel Grooßbritnniens Band 5 1 copia
Die Vögel Grooßbritnniens Band 1 1 copia
John Gould the Bird Man, Correspondence: Correspondence, With a Chronology of His Life and Works. Volume 1 : Through… (1998) 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gould, John
- Data di nascita
- 1804
- Data di morte
- 1881
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Lyme Regis, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- ornitholoog
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- Fellow of the Royal Society
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 53
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 250
- Popolarità
- #91,401
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 163
- Lingue
- 7
This book should be more properly titled: John Gould's Birds of Great Britain. Between 1862 and 1873 Gould published a five volume series called Birds of Great Britain that consisted of 367 hand-colored lithographs. Those plates are reproduced in this volume.
The book itself is quite large (quarto-ish), the width and height of the pages being approximately 26 cm x 33.8 cm (10.25" x 13.3") which may lead you to think that the plates would be equally as large. But that is not the case. Granted, it would be impossible to reproduce 367 plates on 239 pages, I get that, but I expected the result to somehow be a lot more pleasing. There are a small handful of page-sized plates measuring roughly 23.5 cm x 29.85 cm (9.25" x 11.75"), but the great majority are essentially postcard-sized reproductions measuring 11.75 cm x 17.15 cm (4.62" x 6.75").
Copies of this book can be found fairly cheap, but at the end of the day this volume of John Gould bird art is extremely underwhelming. I would save your money and find something better, with larger reproductions, if you really want a nice book depicting John Gould's bird art of Great Britain.… (altro)