Catalogue 288 - Antiquariaat Junk
Catalogue 288 - Antiquariaat Junk
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 />
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