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Ornithologie Bresilienne

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

Stock Code 87483

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

Original price $7,999.00 - Original price $7,999.00
Original price $7,999.00
$7,999.00
$7,999.00 - $7,999.00
Current price $7,999.00
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.

Set of four chromolithgraph plates of Birds of Prey, printed in colour and finished by hand. sheet size 44x61.5cm.

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Ornithologie Bresilienne

DESCOURTILZ, Jean Theodore

Stock code: 87483

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