DESCOURTILZ, Jean Theodore

Ornithologie Bresilienne

ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.

Stock Code 87494

Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons, London for Thomas Reeves, [?1852-1856].

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Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of French adventurer, botanist and naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. The only other work that Descourtilz was known to have illustrated was his father's work Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles.

Birds depicted: Pteroclossus Aracari and Pteroclossus Ulocomus.

Chromolithgraph plate of an Aracari printed in colour and finished by hand. Mounted, overall size: 73cm by 54cm.

Sitwell Fine Bird Books: 90

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