\n The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould, a five-volume work published between 1862 and 1873, will be offered at Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps & Manuscripts Sale in Leyburn on August 22.\n<\/p>\n
\n The set features 367 hand-coloured lithographs and is celebrated for its scientific accuracy and artistic quality.John Gould, The Birds of Great Britain \u2013 Estimate: \u00a325,000-35,000\u00a0(Image: Tennants)\n<\/p>\n
\n The copy comes with provenance from Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough, as well as Birch Bernstein and HH Henley.\n<\/p>\n
\n Gould, who rose from humble beginnings as a gardener and taxidermist, became one of the most influential British ornithologists of the 19th century.\n<\/p>\n
\n He published 41 folios with more than 3,000 illustrations, helping to shape ornithology and natural history illustration.Stafford Gaol Calendars of Prisoners \u2013 Estimate: \u00a33,000-5,000 (Image: Tennants)\n<\/p>\n
\n Gould would study, describe, and sketch the birds, before his wife or later artists including Henry Constantine Richter, William Matthew Hart, and Edward Lear, completed the hand-coloured lithographs to his exacting standards.\n<\/p>\n
\n The illustrations are known for being both artistically striking and scientifically detailed, often showing birds in naturalistic settings.\n<\/p>\n
\n Other rare works are also included in the upcoming auction.\n<\/p>\n
\n A copy of John Miller\u2019s Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaei, valued at \u00a38,000 to \u00a312,000, is among the lots.John Miller, An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus \u2013 Estimate: \u00a38,000-12,000 (Image: Tennants)\n<\/p>\n
\n Published in parts between 1770 and 1777, the botanical volume features detailed illustrations of Carl Linnaeus\u2019 landmark classification system.\n<\/p>\n
\n Miller, originally Johann Sebastian Mueller from Nuremberg, reportedly received praise from Linnaeus himself for the quality of his drawings.\n<\/p>\n
\n The book was once gifted to Ackworth School in Pontefract by Ellen Gurney.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her father-in-law, Samuel Gurney, owned West Ham Park, which was previously home to a botanical garden created by Dr John Fothergill.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was there that Miller gathered many of the specimens featured in his work.\n<\/p>\n
\n The sale will also include a group of 42 17th-century calendars of prisoners from Stafford Gaol, estimated at \u00a33,000 to \u00a35,000.\n<\/p>\n
\n The documents, dating from March 1661 to August 1688, detail prisoners and their charges.\n<\/p>\n
\n Examples of entries include: “Elizabeth Woolley alias Bell of Elford in ye County of Stafford upon suspicion of having two husbands”\n<\/p>\n
\n READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n and “William Bullorke? for mourning Richard Burne Minister of Cannock by discharging a pistoll in the church.”\n<\/p>\n \n The calendars also list charges of burglary, highway robbery, livestock theft, counterfeiting, and accusations of being “Popish Priests.”\n<\/p>\n \n A fully illustrated catalogue will be available on the Tennants website ahead of the auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould, a five-volume work published between 1862 and 1873, will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-300730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114935593950990490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}