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Catalogue 288 - Antiquariaat Junk

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[37] MIVART, S.G. A monograph of the Lories, or brush-tongued parrots,<br />

composing the family Loriidae. London, R.H. Porter, 1896. Large-<br />

4to (315 x 250mm). pp. liii, 193, with 4 coloured maps, 61 fine handcoloured<br />

lithographed plates and 19 figures in the text. Publisher’s brown cloth, gilt<br />

spine. € 7400<br />

“A thorough treatise on the group in question, with excellent handcoloured plates” (Zimmer<br />

439). The introduction (pp. xix-xxxix) contains careful observations on the anatomy<br />

of the Loriidae, about which D.N.B. writes: “In mastery of anatomical detail he had few<br />

37 Mivart<br />

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