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Prints listed here are for reference only. They represent a selection of bird prints that have been sold through the New Zealand Birds Greytown Gallery or through this web site.

 


Eleazar ALBIN

PUBLICATION

The Natural History of Birds (1731–38. 1st English edition)

Page size: approximately 9 1/8 by 11 1/4 inches (23.3 x 28.8cm).

Original Hand-coloured engravings


F W Frohawk, D Seth-Smith (artists)

PUBLICATION

Journal of the Avicultural Society

Ornamented Lorikeet Trichoglossus ornatus, Vol 3, No. 29, (1897)
Sacred Kingfisher Halcyon sancta, Vol 6, No. 66, (1900)

Page size: 8 2/8 x 5 2/8inches (21x13.3cm) appoximately.

 

Original Chromolithographs and hand-coloured lithographs


G.J. BROINOWSKI (artist)

PUBLICATION

The Birds of Australia, 1887-1891.

Size: 14 3/16 inches by 10 1/2 inches (36.3cm x 26.7cm) approximately.

 

Original Hand-colored lithographs


Walter Lawry BULLER (editor)

PUBLICATION

A History of the Birds of New Zealand (1st edition), 1873

Print size: 9 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches, (24 x 31.5cm), approximately.

Original hand-coloured lithographs


Walter Lawry BULLER (editor)

PUBLICATION

A History of the Birds of New Zealand (2nd edition), 1888

Print size: Imperial quarto 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (36.5cm x 27cm) approximately.

Original Chromolithographs


Walter Lawry BULLER (editor)

PUBLICATION

A Supplement to the Birds of New Zealand, 1905

Published in two volumes.
Print size: Imperial quarto 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (36.5cm x 27cm) approximately.

 

Original Chromolithographs


Benjamin FAWCETT (engraver)

PUBLICATION

W. T. Greene's

Parrots in Captivity

Published in London in 1884.
After drawings by A. F. Lydon.
Page size: 6 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches (16.5 x 25 cm) approximately.

Original Chromoxylograph ( color wood engraving )


Benjamin FAWCETT (engraver)

PUBLICATION

Reverend Frances Orpen Morris'

Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds

1st edition, 1853.
With additional hand colouring
Page size: 5 3/4 x 9 7/16 inches (14.7 x 24.2 cm) approximately.

Xylographic (woodcut)


Benjamin FAWCETT (engraver)

PUBLICATION

Charles Robert Brees'

A History of The Birds of Europe, Not Observed In The British Isles

Published in London, by Groombridge And Sons, Paternoster Row, 1866. A Lydon and Fawcett colaboration.
After drawings by A. F. Lydon.
Page size: 6 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches (16.5 x 25 cm) approximately.

Original Chromoxylograph ( color wood engraving )


Frederick du Cane GODMAN

PUBLICATION

Fredrick du Cane Godman's

Monograph of the Petrels (Tubinares), 1907-10.

Drawings by John Gerard Keulemans

Page size: 12 3/8 inches by 9 3/8 inches (31.5 x 24.5cm) approximately.

 

Original Hand-colored lithographs


John GOULD

PUBLICATION

Birds of Australia, (1840–48)

Page size: (Imperial Folio) 14 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches approximately .

 

Original Hand colored lithographs


John GOULD

PUBLICATION

Birds of Europe, (1832–37)

Page size: (Imperial Folio) 14 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches approximately .

 

Original Hand colored lithographs


John GOULD

PUBLICATION

Birds of Great Britain, (1862–73)

Page size: (Imperial Folio) 14 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches approximately .

 

Original Hand colored lithographs


George Robert GRAY

PUBLICATION

Zoology of the Voyage of HMZ Erebus & Terror, Birds of New Zealand

Gray, G.R. and Sharpe, R. Bowdler, 1846-1875.

Page size: 30cm X 24 cm (12 inches X 9.5 inches) approximately

Original Hand-coloured lithographs


George Robert GRAY

PUBLICATION

Genera of Birds, 1849.

Page size: 30cm X 24 cm (12 inches X 9.5 inches) approximately.

Original Hand-coloured lithographs


IBIS

PUBLICATION JOURNAL

IBIS

Page size: 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (22.5 x 14.2 cm) appoximately.

Original Hand-coloured lithographs


Sir William JARDINE (1800-1874)

PUBLICATION

Illustrations of Ornithology, 1827.
Naturalist's Library, 1833-43.

Page size: 16.7cm x 10.3cm (6 5/8 x 4 1/16 inches) approximately.

Original Hand-coloured steel engravings


John Gerard KEULEMANS

PUBLICATIONS

G.D. Rowley's Ornithological Miscellany, 1875 – 78;
Henry E. Dresser's Birds of Europe,1871 – 1896;
Henry Seebohm's The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae, or the Plovers, Sanpipers, Snipes, and their Allies, 1887 – 88.

Page size: 8 13/16 x by 5 1/8 inches (22.5cm x 13cm); & 13 x 9 1/2 inches (33 x 24 cm), approximately.

Original Hand-coloured lithographs


John LATHAM

PUBLICATION

A General Synopsis of Birds published in London, 1795.
The General History of Birds (1821-28).

Page size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (18.5 x 24cm) approximately.

Original Hand-coloured engravings


Edward LEAR

PUBLICATION

Jardine's

Naturalist's Library, Volume VI, Ornithology, Parrots, 1840.

Page size: approximately 6 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches (17 x 10.5 cm, approximately).

Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Volume VI, Ornithology, Parrots, 1840.

Original Hand coloured steel engravings


Edward LEAR

PUBLICATION

John Gould’s

Birds of Australia (1840–1848).

Page size: (Imperial Folio) 14 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches approximately.

Original Hand-coloured lithographs


René Primevère LESSON

PUBLICATION

Complements de Buffon, 2nd edition, volume 2:  Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux

Publisher: Pourrat Frères, Paris, 1838.
Page size: 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches (25 x 16.5 cm), approximately.

Original Hand-coloured lithographs


William LEWIN

PUBLICATION

Birds of Great Britain, 1st edition published in 1789

Page size: 10 1/2 by 13 1/8 inches (27 x 34cm) with the image marked at 7 by 8 5/8 inches (18 x 22cm) approximately.

Original Water colours


William LEWIN

PUBLICATION

Birds of Great Britain, 2nd edition 1794-1801

Page size: 9 15/16 by 13 7/8 inches (35.5 x 25.3cm) with the plate marks at 5 3/8 by 6 3/4 inches (17.6 x 13.8cm) approximately.

Original Hand coloured engraved plates


Frances Orpen MORRIS

PUBLICATION

A History of British Birds, 1st edition, (first edition was published in stages from 1851-57)

Page size: 6 x 10 inches (15.5 x 25.5 cm) approximately.

Original Xylographic (woodcut) prints with additional hand colouring


George SHAW & Frederick NODDER

PUBLICATIONS

George SHAW & Frederick NODDER’s

Vivarium Naturae, the Naturalist's Miscellany, 1790-1813
George SHAW
General Zoology and Systematic Natural History, London, 1806.

Page size: 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (14 x 23.5cm) approximately.

Original Hand coloured engravings


Charles d'ORBIGNY (1802-1857), editor

PUBLICATION

Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle
Published in 1849 by Renard & Martinet, Paris.
Print size: 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (16cm x 25cm) approximately.

Original hand-coloured stipple engraving


The Transactions & The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

PUBLICATION

The Natural History of Birds (1731–38. 1st English edition)

Date range: 1880 to 89.

Page size: (TZS) - 9 1/2 x 12 inches; (PZS) - 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 approximately.

Original Lithographs and hand coloured lithographs


 

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