Pageantry of Brazilian Birds

Jean Thedore Descourtilz – Pageantry of Brazilian birds in their natural surroundings – 1960 Facsimile of a 19th-century standard work with magnificent colour prints Jean Thedore Descourtilz – Pageantry of Brazilian birds in their natural surroundings – Amsterdam & Rio de Janeiro, Colibris Editora LTDA, 1960 – 1st edition – 23 pp. + 60 unnumbered pages with black-and-white and colour prints – Green cloth binding with gilt print – 29.5 × 44.5 cm. In cardboard slipcase with French supplement. Facsimile of “Oiseaux brillans et remarquables du Brésil’ placés prés des végetaux dont les fruits les nourissent. Peints sur les lieux par J. Th. Descourtilz”; (1835); Amsterdam & Rio de Janeiro, Colibris Editora LTDA, 1960 – 40 pp.