Gould and Richter Prince Max's Aracari Hand-Colored Plate Image is of a ptarmigan

Image is of a ptarmigan or lagopus and egg

Rare as a complete set

Publisher’s original cream cloth

lettered in gilt in one compartment and with alternating gilt decorations (falcons and crossed swords)

Gould and Richter Prince Max's Aracari Hand-Colored Plate Image is of a ptarmiganHand 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.