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843794
  • Title
    Drawings of Australian birds' eggs / by J. H. Gould
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXA 3927
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    No date
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    843794
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : CY 583, frames 201-281
  • Physical Description
    1 volume (72 watercolour plates), - 30 x 24.5 cm
  • Description source

    Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
  • General note

    These drawings are probably those referred to by J. Gould in letter to E. P. Ramsay, 23 November 1867. The volume came from a great grandson of Gould, Dr. G. Edelsten. It is described in detail in the 'Emu', November 1952 and in the 'Victorian Naturalist' April 1955.

    Drawings are on sheets of drawing paper mounted on the pages of the volume
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    One of the plates is signed 'J. H. Gould', another 'J. H. Gould del', others are initialed 'J. H. G.' and three have the initials followed by 'del'. There is some variation in the handwriting.
  • Attributions / conjectures

    J. H Gould is presumably Dr John Henry Gould, son of John Gould
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