Auction 7 Antique prints with no reserve
By Britannica auctions
Saturday, Jan 11, 14:00
Yore Mill, Aysgarth, Leyburn DL8 3SR, UK

We are offering a huge selection of antique prints and engravings from 16th-20th centuries.

Subjects included are natural history, architecture & designs, caricatures & humour, classical (including Egyptology), religious & historical, famous buildings and views, maps, sporting events, royal and historical portraits.


We particularly feature ornithological prints by John Gould, Robert Gillmor, Edward Lear, Peter Mazell, William Swainson, Prideaux J Selby, William Lewin, WT Greene, Jacques Barraband, Francois Martinet, Jean-Baptiste Audebert, Rene Lesson, Edouard Travies, Charles Lemaire, Conrad Susemihl and Cornelius Nozeman.


Other notable natural history artists are JJ & JW Audubon, Rev. Houghton, Josiah Whymper, Archibald Thorburn, George Sowerby, John Frederick Miller, George Edwards, Moses Harris, William Hewitson, Frederick Nodder, Edward Donovan and HN Humphreys.


There are numerous botanical engravings by Elizabeth Twining, Rory McEwen, Walter Fitch, Ferdinand Vietz, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Christopher Trew & Georg Ehret, Jane E Giraud, Edward Lowe, Elizabeth Yeats and P Stroobant.


There are also maps by Heinrich Bunting, Van der Aa, Emanuel Bowen, Robert Morden and title pages by Johann Blaeu,


Other important artists and engravers featured are Thomas Chippendale, Christoph Glotch, George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, Edouard Garnier, Anthony Desgodetz, Anton Seder, John Sell Cotman, Auguste Racinet, Henri Delange, Rudolf Ackermann, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Kyd, Joseph Strutt, Charles Riviere, William Nicholson, Tom Merry, Hans Holbein, Claude Lorrain and Louis Haghe. 

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LOT 7002:

J & E Gould
John Gould - Black-headed Trogon 1835

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John Gould - Black-headed Trogon 1835

This original lithograph of the Black-headed Trogon (Trogon melanocephala) is from John Gould's A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons. Published by J Gould, Golden Square, London 1835 and printed by C Hullmandel. First edition.


The hand-coloured lithographs, heightened with gum arabic, were drawn and lithographed by John and Elizabeth Gould and printed by C Hullmandel.

The first edition of this work was issued in 3 parts between 1835 and 1838 and illustrated with 36 plates; 34 species were described, including 12 new to science. This plate is from Part 2 of this series. The trogon's plumage is very remarkable and characteristic. John Gould was one of the most respected ornithologists of all time. As a taxidermist, traveller and accomplished artist, he created detailed images of almost 3,000 birds from all over the world. Working from John Gould's sketches of birds in situ, his wife Elizabeth completed the images for this work and lithographed them onto stone then hand-coloured each print. Gould's prints are some of the most beautiful bird prints ever produced and this is a fine example of his work.

Size: approx. 21in x 15in (53cm x 38cm)



The print is in excellent condition on thick, high quality paper. Please inspect the image carefully for any age related marks

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