Céphaloptère Orné, also known as the ‘ombrelle’ or parasol bird, a plate from the rare copy of Oiseaux brillans du Brésil sold by Heritage for $80,000 (£61,070).
A photograph from the water damaged copy of John Thomson’s Foochow and the Min.
Jean Théodore Descourtilz’s Oiseaux brillans du Brésil “…is so rare that I had begun to doubt its existence”.