John Gould (1804-1881), four plates from Gould's the mammals of Australia (1845-1863), hand coloured lithographs, 'Lagorchestes hirsutus', 'Bettongia campestris', 'Dasyurus hallucatus', and 'Phascogale penicillata', the lithographs drawn by H.C. Richter after Gould's original drawings, each with the original letterpress relating to the plate in a pocket to the back, Uniformly framed, three each around 34 x 51 cm (visible with the mount), 59 x 73 cm (frames overall), the last of similar dimensions but in upright format