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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