DESCOURTILZ LITHOGRAPHS FROM PAGEANTRY OF AMERICAN BIRDS

Stunning Brazilian Birds, represented with their preferred food sources.

These beautiful folio-sized prints, originally from Oiseaux brilliants et remarquables du Bresil by Jean Theodore Descourtilz, one of the rarest and most beautiful hand-colored bird books ever produced, has been taken from an out-of-print limited edition published in Amsterdam. This fine reproduction print on heavy quality rag paper with no text in back was produced using full-color offset printing, the result being stunning color and detail. In their preface, the editors of the volume state that “the utmost care has been taken to achieve a flawless reproduction”.

Jean-Théodore Descourtilz was one of the eight sons of the French adventurer/ naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz. and supplied the illustrations to the latter's Flore médicale des Antilles, published in Paris between 1821 and 1829. Jean-Théodore prepared and published Oiseaux brillans du Brésil in Paris in 1834. An English edition with the same illustrations, printed by Waterlow & Sons appeared in 1856.

Descourtilz worked for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He died on 13th January 1855 at Riacho in Brazil. A commemorative facsimile of the work was published in Portuguese by Livraria Kosmos Editôra in 1944 with notes by João Moojen.

Original text in French (followed by English translation)

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 37 Golden-Headed Manakin or Manakin a Tete D’ Or

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 39 Curly Blue Jay or Pie Acahe

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1960 VERY RARE Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 35 Archbishop Tanager or Tachyphone Archeveque in Banana Tree

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 33 Brazilian Tanager or Ramphocele Scarlatte

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 31 Scarlet Flycatcher or Moucherolle Rubin

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 27 Chesnut-Backed Tanager or Tangara Passe-Vert

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 29 White-Capped Tanager or Euphone a Diademe

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 23 Paradise Tanager or Tangara Septicolor

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 25 Brazilian Turquoise Tanager (Tangara Diable-Enrhume)

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 2 Golden Paroquet or Perruche Guiaruba or Plate 3 Red-Eared Paroquet or Perruche a Gorge Variee

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 21 Boat-Billed Flycatcher or Tyran Bem-Te-Veo

VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 19 Red Chatterer or Cotinga Ouette

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VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 15 Spot-Tailed Jacamar or Jacamar Dore

VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 17 Yellow-Fronted Woodpecker or Pic a Ventre Rouge

VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 11 Black-Spotted Barbet or Cabezon a Plastron Noir on Cactus

VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 13 Orange-Breasted Barbet or Cabezon Elegant & Butterfly

VERY RARE 1960 Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithograph Brazilian Bird Plate 1 Barraband Parrot Psittacule or Caica-Barraband

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VERY RARE 1960 Pair Of Rare Descourtilz Limited Edition Original Folio Lithographs Brazilian Birds Plate 41 Crested Cardinal (Fringille Paroare) & Plate 25 Brazilian Turquoise Tanager (Tangara Diable-Enrhume)