L'amazone à tête jaune Yellow-crowned Amazon Amazona ochrocephala

by Jacques Barraband

$1,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Extremely rare proof impression: one of only 10 copies printed. A member of a family with 11 species or sub-species, the Yellow-crowned Amazon is a generally common native to southern and central Colombia east of the Andes across Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, northern Brazil and Trinidad. Jacques Barraband was the finest ornithological artist of his time. The son of a weaver at the Aubusson Factory, he is first mentioned as a pupil of Joseph Malaine 1745-1809 , the

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