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Ornithologie Bresilienne

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

Stock Code 87552

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

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Birds depicted: Tanagra Tricolor, Tanagra Talao, Tanagra Multicolor and Tanagra Chrysogaster.

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: 602mm by 432mm.

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Ornithologie Bresilienne

DESCOURTILZ, Jean Theodore

Stock code: 87552

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