John Gould (1804-1881), Paradisea papuana, hand coloured lithograph, a plate from J. Gould, the birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia (1875-1888), the lithograph drawn by William Matthew Hart after Gould's original drawing, the original letter press relating to the plate attached to the back, 55 x 33 cm (visible within mount). Provenance: George and Janice Rayner, Melbourne