Ornithologie Bresilienne
ou Histoire des Oiseaux du Brésil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes.
Stock Code 87550
Rio de Janeiro: Waterlow and Sons, London for Thomas Reeves, [?1852-1856].
Original price
$1,283.00
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Original price
$1,283.00
Original price
$1,283.00
$1,283.00
$1,283.00
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$1,283.00
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$1,283.00
Birds depicted: Muscipeta Filicauda, Muscipeta Leucocephala, Muscipeta Psalura, Muscipeta Alector and Muscipeta Coronata.
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.
Chromolithgraph plate printed in colour and finished by hand. Overall sheet size: 601mm by 432mm.
Sitwell Fine Bird Books: 90
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.
Chromolithgraph plate printed in colour and finished by hand. Overall sheet size: 601mm by 432mm.
Sitwell Fine Bird Books: 90
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