Ornitologia Brasiliense: Catalogo descritivo e ilustrado das Aves do Brasil, primeiro volume -- Parte introdutoria e familias Rheidae a Cuculidae (all published) lettered and blind-stamped on gilt

lettered and blind-stamped on gilt on the spine and front cover

each plate is accompanied by one or two pages of descriptive text

Contemporary one-half brown calf leather over marbled boards with gilt-lettered brown leather author/title label on the upper cover with later French marbled endpapers added in

Publisher Academic Press Publisher Place London Date Published 1988 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near fine Condition Description A bright and clean copy in near fine condition

Ornitologia Brasiliense: Catalogo descritivo e ilustrado das Aves do Brasil, primeiro volume -- Parte introdutoria e familias Rheidae a Cuculidae (all published) lettered and blind-stamped on giltPp. xiv, 181, 24 full page color plates, numerous detailed text figure and halftones, some in full page format. Publishers original one quarter green cloth, lettered in white on the spine, over white cloth covered boards, lettered in black, folio. The text is in Portuguese. A detailed monographic study of the birds of Brazil detailing the families Rheidae and Cuculidae. No other subsequent volumes were ever published. From the library of Ralph Lima