The Birds in Brazil

PISO, W. & MARCGRAF, G. Historia naturalis Brasiliae, ... in qua non tantum Plantae et Animalia, sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia et mores describuntur... 1648

Lugdun. Batavorum et Amstelodami, F. Hackium apud L. Elzevirium, 1648. Folio (397 x 248mm). pp. (xii, including frontispiece), 122, (2); (iv), 293, (7), with engraved frontispiece and ca. 500 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary calf, gilt ornamented spine in 7 compartments, sides with large gilt English Royal coat of arms of James II and the motto of the English chivalric Order of the Garter 'Honi soit qui mal y pense', and 2 gilt borders (skilful repair to hinges and foot of spine). First edition and a very special copy from the famous John Roland Abbey collection in an English Royal binding of the first major survey of the natural history of Brazil and the most extensive documentation on the Brazilian flora and fauna of the 17th century. It is also a pioneering work on tropical medicine. Landis comments: "This magnificent book, the most noted work of science in seventeenth-century Holland, was a product of that century's Dutch conquest of a portion of Brazil. It remained the one great illustrated work on the natural history of Brazil until the major expeditions of the nineteenth century generated new publications". Willem Piso (1611-1678; Dutch physician) was sent by the Dutch West Indies Company as the leader of the scientific mission to Brazil, where he was accompanied by the German naturalist and traveler Georg Marcgraf (1610-1644). Marcgraf's contributions to the above work are the descriptions and woodcut illustrations of the natural history matter depicting fishes, birds, quadrupeds and serpents as well as insects, and for the larger part plants. The part on the northeastern region of Brazil and the linguistics and ethnography of its inhabitants is followed by an extensive Tupi vocabulary of the Tapuia Indians. The fine pictorial titlepage is engraved after a drawing by Matham, the original of which is in the Albertina Library in Vienna. Provenance: The coat of arms are of James II (1633-1701), as Duke of York. This means that the arms date from before 1685, when James became King, and would have adopted slightly different arms; Armorial bookplate of John Roland Abbey and bookplate of John Henry Gurney. Hunt 244; Nissen BBI, 1533.

[SW: Brazil/Birds / Ornithology/Floras / Plantgeography/Herbals / Early Botany/Medical Plants / Poisonous Plants / Pharmacy/Fishes / Ichthyology / Fisheries/Vertebrates / Mammals/Entomology / Insects]

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Dubs, Balthasar: Birds of Southwestern Brazil. Catalogue and Guide to the Birds of the Pantanal of Mato Grosso and its Border Areas. Küsnacht: Betrona Verlag, 1992. ISBN: 9783952024409
Hardcoverband mit illustriertem Schutzumschlag, in sehr gutem und sauberem Zustand. - Dr. Balthasar Dubs' book on the avifauna of Brazil's Pantanal is a most valuable and timely contribution to South American ornithology. Brazil, the largest country in South America, has no modern book in English illustrating its avifauna, and the Pantanal alone supports over one-half of the species occurring in the country as a whole. The breadth and depth of Dr. Dubs's knowledge of this area make him the ideal author for a book such as this one. (Francois Vuilleumier, Chairman of the Dept. of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History) , ISBN: 3952024406

164 Seiten mit einem Abbildungsteil, gebundene Ausgabe. Auflage 1992.

[SW: Naturwissenschaften. Biologie. Zoologie. Wirbeltiere. Vögel. Ornithologie. Vogelbestimmung. Avifauna Lateinamerikas. Brasilien. Pantanal. Bestimmungsbuch. Naturführer.]

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Balthasar Dubs: Birds of Southwestern Brazil - Catalogue and Guide to the Birds of the Pantanal of Mato Grosso and its Border Areas, Küsnacht Betrona-Verlag 1992
Aus dem Klappentext: Dr. Balthasar Dub's book on the avifauna of Brazil's Pantanal is a most valuable and timely contribution to South American ornithology. Brazil, the largest country in South America, has no modern book in English illustrating ist avifauna, and the Pantanal alone supports over one-half of the species occuring in the country as a whole.

PBd mit Titel in Gold auf Deckel und Rücken, illu OU, 164 S, mit zahlreichen s/w-Fotografien und Kartenausschnitten im englischsprachigen Text.

[SW: K 030 KZ 090609 Ornithologie; Brasilien; Vögel; Vogel; Birds; Biologie; Natur; Fauna; Avifauna]

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Augusto Ruschi / Versao Alasdair G. Burman: Aves Do Brasil, Sao Paulo - Brasil Editora Rios Ltda. 1979
Indice / Index: Introducao - Introduction / O aparecimento das aves e o Brasil - Brazil and appearance of birds / O ciclo anual - The annual cyvle / A migracao - Migration / A participacao das aves na vida humana - Birds and their place in the human life / Conservacao e manejo - Conservation and management / Distribuicao das aves no Brasil - Distribution of birds in Brazil / A classificacao - Classification / Glossario - Glossary / Algumas especies de aves raras - Rire birds in danger of extinction / Bibliografia - Bibliography

Folio, illu Oln, Titel auf Rücken und Deckel, 335 S mit 36 Farbtafeln sowie zahlr schwarzweiß-Illustrationen von Etienne und Yvonne Demonte im Text. Texto bilingüe em portugues e ingles.

[SW: Fenster RH 211106 Ornithologie, Vogelkunde, Vogel, Vögel, Brasilien, brasilianische Vogelwelt]

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