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Cotinga Ouette, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Cotinga Ouette.

Brilliant Birds of Brazil, complete set

By Jean Théodore Descourtilz, 1834

All 60 plates of Brilliant Birds of Brazil as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 60 plates, each 11½ × 17¾ in
  • A title page and a contents page with the titles of all plates
  • A Solander box in linen with gold lettering, in the colour and lettering you choose
  • A certificate of authenticity

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Brilliant Birds of Brazil

Contents

Jean Théodore Descourtilz, 1834

  1. 9Cotinga Ouette
  2. 10Tachyphône Archevêque
  3. 14Toucan Ariel
  4. 18Fringille Paroare
  5. 20Tersine Bleue
  6. 25Psittacule Caica-Barraband
  7. 31Perroquet à Ventre bleu
  8. 33Pie à Ventre rouge
  9. 35Tangara Septicolor
  10. 36Momot Hoûtou
  11. 43Pie à Huppe Paillée
  12. 54Spatulé Ajarit
  13. 59Tyran Bem te Veol
  14. Cabézon à Plastron noir
  15. Cabézon-Elégant
  16. Carouge Jamacaii
  17. Cassique Huppé
  18. Céphaloptère-Orné
  19. Colibri-Topaze
  20. Colombe Cocotzin
  21. Coracine Ensanglantée
  22. Cotinga Cordon-bleu
  23. Cotinga Pacapaca
  24. Courlis Rouge
  25. Couroucou Oranga
  26. Couroucou Rosalba
  27. Dacnis Bleu
  28. Daonis Spize
  29. Euphône à Bandeau
  30. Euphône à Diadême
  31. Euphône à Tête bleue
  32. Euphône Galot
  33. Euphône Téité
  34. Guit guit aux ailes variées
  35. Héliophile Taunay
  36. Jacamar Doré
  37. Manakin à Tête d’Or
  38. Manakin aux longues Pennes
  39. Manakin Militaire
  40. Manakin Tijé
  41. Moucherolle Rubin
  42. Oiseau Mouche à Collier
  43. Oiseau Mouche à deux Huppes
  44. Oiseau Mouche Chatoyant
  45. Oiseau Mouche Hirondelle
  46. Oiseau Mouche Rubis Topaze
  47. Oiseau Mouche très petit
  48. Pardalote Couronné
  49. Perruche à Gorge variée
  50. Perruche-Guïaruba
  51. Pie Acahé
  52. Platyrhynque Couronné
  53. Procné Araponga
  54. Psittacule Foui-Eté
  55. Ramphocèle Scarlatte
  56. Tangara à Plastron
  57. Tangara à Tête bleue
  58. Tangara Diable-enchumé
  59. Tangara Passe-Vert
  60. Tangara Tricolor

The contents page in the box lists every plate. Each title opens the single print.

About the original

Jean Théodore Descourtilz (about 1796-1855), a French doctor, painter and ornithologist who lived and worked in Brazil, published Oiseaux brillans du Brésil in Paris in 1834, his first bird book: 60 hand-coloured lithographs, most showing a single species with the plants that feed and shelter it.

It is one of the rarest books on South American birds, and Descourtilz is thought to have coloured the plates himself.

Title
Brilliant Birds of Brazil
Published
1834
Format
Folio, 11½ × 17¾ in
Original in
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Plates
60

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