The mammals of Australia.
John Gould (1804-1881)
Category
Books
Date
1845 - 1863
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3147259.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2., leaves of plates . chiefly col. ill.. . fol (56 x 38 cm.). Provenance: Nineteenth-century large armorial bookplate: Calke Abbey library [associated with Sir George Crewe and his son, Sir John Harpur Crewe]. Binding: Nineteenth-century brown morocco; elaborate gilt fillet and gilt tooled borders and turn-ins; triple gilt fillets on board edges; gilt tooled, with gilt and black fillets on spine; text-block edge gilt; gilt lettered spine.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
John Gould (1804-1881) Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902)