A Monograph of the Lories, or Brush-Tongued Parrots, Composing the Family Loriidae

A Monograph of the Lories, or Brush-Tongued Parrots, Composing the Family Loriidae

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Illustrator

Keulemans, J.G.

Publisher

R.H. Porter

Author

Mivart, St. George Jackson

Reference

968

liii, [1], 193pp, [1], plates. Original cloth, bevelled boards, title and author in gilt to spine, with title in gilt to upper cover. Rebacked, original spine laid on, rubbed to extremities. Internally quite bright and clean. With sixty-one hand-coloured lithographic plates by J.G. Keulemans, four coloured lithographic maps and nineteen figures in the text. Keulemans' masterpiece, "probably his best work" (Sitwell, p.63), Nissen IVB:640

Period

Folio

Year

Good+

Binding

Hardback

Publish Place

London

Publish Year

1896

Edition

First Edition

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