St. George Jackson Mivart | A Monograph of the Lories... London, 1896

St. George Jackson Mivart

A Monograph of the lories, or brush-tongued Parrots. London: Taylor and Francis, 1896

FIRST EDITION, first issue (with publisher's name on the spine: "R. H. Porter"), 4to (320 x 254 mm.), dedication, 61 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. G. Keulemans, 4 lithographed maps partially printed in colours, several wood-engraved text illustrations, original brown cloth, leaves uncut, tear at corner of pp. v-viii, dampstain affecting plate 17, light spotting and browning at extremities, extremities slightly bumped

Mivart's thorough monograph of the Loriidae is, "an excellent treatise, with beautiful colored plates" (McGill/Wood.) Sixteen species are described here for the first time. The maps display the general distribution of the family in the South Pacific including Australia, as well as a detailed map of the islands of the archipelago surrounding New Guinea. 

LITERATURE:

Fine Bird Books, p. 94; McGill/Wood 468; Nissen IVB 640; Zimmer, p. 439