Description
Rafael Montes de Oca watched hummingbirds in the field and painted them, and the difference shows: his birds hover, feed and quarrel rather than lying flat as museum skins. This 1875 essay describes the Mexican trochilidae species by species, and its plates — lithographed and coloured by hand — carry the iridescence that is the whole difficulty of the subject, since a hummingbird's colour comes from the structure of the feather and changes with the angle of the light. Reproduced in full colour, from the coloured original. This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1875 México edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.
Details
Publisher - EDITIONS RECREASOFT
Language - Spanish
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Rafael Montes de Oca
Published Date - 0001-01-01
ISBN - 9782387811844
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm
Page Count - 90
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