Salle's Hermit Hummingbirds: A 19th C. Gould Hand-Colored "Phaethornis Augusti", 1850

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This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Phaethornis Augusti", Salle's Hermit Hummingbird by John Gould, published in his "A … more This is a hand-colored folio sized lithograph entitled "Phaethornis Augusti", Salle's Hermit Hummingbird by John Gould, published in his "A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds", published in London in 1850. The print, which was drawn by Gould and Henry Richter and lithographed by Hullmandel and Walton, depicts three brown, grey, black, white and some green colored hummingbirds about a plant with green leaves and coral and yellow flowers.
This beautiful Gould hand-colored hummingbird lithograph is in excellent condition. The original text page is included less