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1679rif. 291101Paris: Chez Estienne Michallet 1679. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 288pp. Folding map. Rebound in lovely 19th Century green morocco gilt with elaborately decorated dentelles. One ink letter on a preliminary leaf and ink correction in errata else very near fine. Guillet's response to Spon's criticism of his brother-in-law's book on Greece. OCLC locates three copies only one in the U.S. and none in France. Chez Estienne Michallet hardcover
1896rif. 16261London: R.H. Porter 1896. 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. First edition of this remarkable monograph with beautiful hand-colored plates by J.G. Keulemans and special maps illustrating the distribution of the family Loriidae and its component genera. The Lories are a family of small parrots remarkable for their brilliant and gay coloration. It is not only the appearance of these birds which make them attractive; some of them as those of the genus Chalcopsittacus will spontaneously approach human dwellings. Of special interest are sixteen of the seventy-five species here depicted and described for the first time Mivart 1827-1900 in terms of mastery of anatomical detail “had few rivals and perhaps no superior among his contemporaries” DNB and Keulemans 1842-1912 was quite possibly the greatest illustrator of birds towards the end of the nineteenth century. . R.H. Porter unknown
