Brilliant Birds of Brazil
By Jean Théodore Descourtilz, 1796-1855
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.
- Published
- 1834
- Format
- Folio
- Sheet
- 11½ × 17¾ in, original size
- Original in
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- In our collection
- 60 prints
All 60 prints
60 prints
The complete set
Brilliant Birds of Brazil is also available as a complete set: every plate we hold, as a facsimile at the original size, with a title page, a contents page and a certificate, in a Solander box.
Limited to 50 sets. Price on request.