[MAXIMILIAN ZU WIED-NEUWIED, Prince.- Abbildungen zur Naturgeschichte Brasiliens = Recueil de planches coloriées d’animaux du Brésil.- Weimar: au Bureau d’Industrie, 1822-1831].- [53] f.: 55 gravuras; 47 cm.- E. Set of 55 copperplate prints (out of 90), 54 of which are hand-coloured (accompanied by the respective explanatory texts, in German and French), from the important collection that the German prince, naturalist and explorer Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782- 1867) published after his return from Brazil, where he stayed between 1815 and 1818, having traveled mainly through the interior of southeastern Brazil. The volume contains the following plates: 1 - Ateles hypoxanthus; 2 - Felis macroura; 3 - Diclidurus albus; 4 - Vespertilio Naso; 5 - Coluber formosus; 6 - Coluber venustissimus; 7 - Callithrix personatus; 8 - Hapale leucocephalus; 9 - Hapale chrysomelas; 10 - Bradypus tridactylus; 11 - Histrix insidiosa; 12 - Boa aquatica; 13 - Agama picta; 14 - Mus pyrrhorhinus; 15 - Bufo cinctus; 16 - Sciurus aestuanus; 17 - Elaps Marcgravii; 18 - Mycetes niger; 19 - Ardea pileata; 20 - Callithrix melanochir; 21 - Cavia rupestris (& Aperea); 22 - Cebus cirrifer; 23 - Dicholophus cristatus; 24 - Mycetes ursinus; 25 - Teius Ameiva (& cyanomelas); 26 - Agama catenata; 27 - Testudo tabulata; 28 e 29 - Lachesis rhombeata; 30 - Cophias bilineatus; 31 - Anolis viridis (& gracilis); 32 - Boa cenchria; 33 - Canis brasiliensis; 34 - Elaps corallinus; 35 - Stellio torquatus; 36 - Bradypus torquatus; 37 - Bufo Agua; 38 - Coluber venustissimus (variété); 39 - Cophias Jararacca; 40 - Cophia atrox; 41 - Hyla Faber (& punctata); 42 - Hyla elegans (& luteolo & aurata); 43 - Scytale coronata; 44 - Coluber Merremii (poecilogyrus & doliatus); 45 - Coluber bicarinatus; 46 - Coluber pileatus; 47 - Coluber poecilogyrus; 48 - Hyla crepitans (& sibillatrix); 49 - Amphisbaena puncata (& flavescens); 50 - Cervus rufus; 52 - Coluber pyrrhopogon; 53 - Emys depressa; 54 - Emys depressa; 55 - Noctilio dorsatus. Print 29 (without text) not coloured; the text of prints 39 and 40 is common to both prints. The engravings are very clean and retain large margins. Engravings 53 and 54 with small fragments of the respective cellophane separators. Period half-binding, in mottled red morocco, with slight wear, showing, at the foot of the spine, the crowned LP monogram, probably Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1773-1850).