Gould and Richter Prince Max's Aracari Hand-Colored Plate printed on glossy thick paper

printed on glossy thick paper

Rare as a complete set

a bright and clean near fine copy

with 12 full page hand-painted watercolors each with a protective onion skin clear sheet

Publisher’s original cream cloth

Gould and Richter Prince Max's Aracari Hand-Colored Plate printed on glossy thick paperHand colored lithographic plate, approximately 14. 5 inches wide by 21 inches long. From: Gould, J., and Owen, R., A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans, Second edition, 1852 1854, plate number 16. Image is of a Prince Max's Aracari, Pteroglossus wiedii. The second edition of this work contained 18 more fine hand colored plates than the original documenting these colorful birds from Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean.