St. George Jackson Mivart
A Monograph of the Lories... London, 1896
Found at
Sothebys,
London
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, Lot 159
6. May - 18. May 2022
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, Lot 159
6. May - 18. May 2022
Estimate: 3.000 - 4.000 GBP
Price realised: 8.820 GBP
Price realised: 8.820 GBP
Description
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
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
A top price for St. George Jackson Mivart
This artwork by St. George Jackson Mivart achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in London in May last year. In the The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I auction, the work A Monograph of the Lories... London, 1896 sold for GBP 8,820.00 (€ 10,375.89) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 4,000.00. This high result makes A Monograph of the Lories... London, 1896 the most expensive artwork by St. George Jackson Mivart that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für St. George Jackson Mivart
Dieses Kunstwerk von St. George Jackson Mivart erzielte im Mai letzten Jahres bei Sothebys in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I wurde die Arbeit A Monograph of the Lories... London, 1896 für GBP 8.820,00 (€ 10.375,89) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 4.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht A Monograph of the Lories... London, 1896 zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von St. George Jackson Mivart, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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