A monograph of the lories, or brush tongued parrots, composing the family loriidae

by Saint George Mivart

$20,000 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

London: R.H. Porter, 1896. Large 4to. liii, i , 193 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 61 hand-colored lithographed plates, 4 colored maps, and numerous text illustrations. Later full cloth, title in gilt to front cover and spine. A superb copy but for a tear on page 63 neatly repaired with tape. From the Library of James M. Dolan Jr., former head curator and director of collections at the Zoological Society of San Diego. Item #16261

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