Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX
By: jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis ; suscepto collegit et descripsit J.B. de Spix
Contributors: Schmidt, Matthias, 1749-1823, ill; Kuhles, Alfred, former owner; Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner
Publisher: Typis Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni
Published: 1824
Place of publication: Monachii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works; Description and travel
Notes: Plates are by M. Schmidt. Plate no. CIX in v. II. signed: Depictae et in lapide sculptae a M. Schmid; Inpressa a J.B. Dressely, Monachii.

Plates are hand-colored.

Tome 2 has CIX [i.e. 118] leaves of plates; additional plates are numbered: VIIIa, XXXIa, LXIIa, LXVIIa, LXXVa, LXXVIa-c, and LXXVIIIa.

Includes indexes.

Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., p. 600

Anker, J. Bird books and bird art, no. 483

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has two copies, both incomplete with t. 2 only; c. 2 with plates only.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015708829) stamped on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution Sep 23 1887 [ms. acc. no.] 130025.

SCNHRB c. 1 three-quarters bound in brown leather and marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, title in gilt on spine.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015708860) has Tucker collection collational notes in pencil on supplied t.p. and bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Marcia Brady Tucker.

SCNHRB c. 2 without t.p., t. 2; supplied in ink.

SCNHRB c. 2 has in ink on t.p.: Alfred Kuhles.

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in recent three-quarters maroon leather and red cloth, gilt edges, title in gilt on spine with gilt ornaments and raised bands.