Mulsant & Verreaux. [Brazilian ruby Hummingbird] Clytolaema Matthewsi. 1874. 1016-B resembling each other

resembling each other

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Images of African birds were popular in early 19th-century France both for their exoticism and for Africa’s interest that Napoleon’s campaigns were generating

these he acknowledged scrupulously on the maps he designed…

was jealously guarded by the French government for the crucial information it so masterfully delineated

Mulsant & Verreaux. [Brazilian ruby Hummingbird] Clytolaema Matthewsi. 1874. 1016-B resembling each otherMulsant & Verreaux [Brazilian ruby Hummingbird] Clytolaema Matthewsi from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Mouches, ou Colibris constituant la famille des Trochildes Published: Lyon, 1874 Lithograph with original hand coloring Paper size: 12 1 4 x 8 3 4 Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Mouches, ou Colibris constituant la famille des Trochildes (The Natural History of Hummingbirds constituting the Trochilidae family) was published in 1874 by prominent