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Title: "New-Zealand Plover", "Nilid Grosbeak", "Black-throated Bunting", and "Variegated Chatterer"
Portfolio: A General History of Birds
*Rare
Year: 1821-1828 (second edition)
Medium: Set of Four Original Hand-Colored Engravings
Limited edition: Unknown
Sheet size (each): approx. 11.13" x 8.75"
Image size (each): approx. 4.75" x 4.5"
Price: $600

John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author. His main works were A General Synopsis of Birds (1781–1801) and General History of Birds (1821–1828). He was able to examine specimens of Australian birds which reached England in the last twenty years of the 18th century, and was responsible for providing English names for many of them. He named some of Australia's most famous birds, including the emu, sulphur-crested cockatoo, wedge-tailed eagle, superb lyrebird, Australian magpie, magpie-lark and pheasant coucal. He was also the first to describe the hyacinth macaw. Latham has been called the "grandfather" of Australian ornithology.

References:

"A General History of Birds", (1821-1828) - Brunet III, 872; Lowndes II, page 1314; Fine Bird Books page 87; Nissen IVB 532; Zimmer page 376

Title: "Kamtschatkan Thrush", "Spotted-sided Grosbeak", "Crimson-bellied Flycatcher", and "Black-headed Grosbeak"
Portfolio: A General History of Birds
*Rare
Year: 1821-1828 (second edition)
Medium: Set of Four Original Hand-Colored Engravings
Limited edition: Unknown
Sheet size (each): approx. 11.25" x 8.88"
Image size (each): approx. 4.5" x 4.5"
Price: $600

Title: "Parrot-billed Grosbeaks", "White backed Coly", "Banksian Cockatoo", and "Variegated Tanager"
Portfolio: A General History of Birds
*Rare
Year: 1821-1828 (second edition)
Medium: Set of Four Original Hand-Colored Engravings
Limited edition: Unknown
Sheet size (each): approx. 11.25" x 8.88"
Image size (each): approx. 5.75" x 4.75"
Price: $600