Avium species novae, quas in itinere annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX per Brasiliam
By: jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis ; suscepto collegit et descripsit Joannes Bapt. de Spix ; operis a Spixio anno MDCCCXXIV. primum editi tabulas revisit, denuo imprimendas et emendatis coloribus imbuendas curavit Dr. Car. Frid. Phil. de Martius
Contributors: Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von, 1794-1868; Schmidt, Matthias, 1749-1823, ill
Publisher: Impensis editores
Published: 1838
Place of publication: Monachii
Language: lat
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works; Description and travel
Notes: First ed. published in 1824-1825. This ed. of 1839 not in Zimmer, Ayer Lib. or Anker, Bird books. BM (Nat. hist.) and Nissen cite an ed. of Monachii, 1838-1839.

Plates are by M. Schmidt.

Plates are hand-colored.

Includes indexes.

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy (39088015708902) has t. 1 only.

SCNHRB copy stamped on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution Sep 23 1887 [ms. acc. no.] 130025.

SCNHRB copy three-quarters bound in brown leather and marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, title in gilt on spine.