Ornitologia Brasiliense: Catalogo descritivo e ilustrado das Aves do Brasil, primeiro volume -- Parte introdutoria e familias Rheidae a Cuculidae (all published) 5 inches by 9

5 inches by 9

”  The fine color plates in A Monograph of the Coraciidae certainly typify this description of Keulemans’ artistic style

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The first part provides a general account of sea snakes while the second part provides keys

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

Ornitologia Brasiliense: Catalogo descritivo e ilustrado das Aves do Brasil, primeiro volume -- Parte introdutoria e familias Rheidae a Cuculidae (all published) 5 inches by 9Pp. 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