Ornithologie Brésilienne, ou, Histoire des oiseaux du Brésil
Subtitle: remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes
By: par le Dr. J.T. Descourtilz
Contributors: Waterlow and Sons
Publisher: Éditeur, Thomas Reeves
Published: 1854
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: fre
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works
Other titles: Ornithologie Brésilienne; Histoire des oiseaux du Brésil
Notes: Issued in 4 parts; imprint dates from Zimmer and Nissen. Wood, Vertebrate zoology, dates the work to 1852.

"Londres: l'Imprimerie de Waterlow et fils"--Verso of t.p. Coues notes date of 1852 appearing here.

Title vignette (armorial with crown).

Text in double columns, within ruled border.

Plates have some hand-finished coloring.

Plates have guard tissues.

Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., p. 166

Wood, C. Vertebrate zoology, p. 315

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 236

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SCNHRB copy (39088015709017) imperfect: lacking plate 10.

SCNHRB copy stamped in red on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution.

SCNHRB copy has pencilled annotations on plates.

SCNHRB copy bound in green library buckram, title in gilt on spine.