Buller's birds of New Zealand
Subtitle: the complete work of JG Keulemans
By: [text by] Geoff Norman
Contributors: Norman, Geoff, 1952- author, editor; Fry, Stephen, 1957- writer of preface; Buller, Walter Lawry, Sir, 1838-1906; Buller, Walter Lawry, Sir, 1838-1906
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Te Papa Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Wellington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780987668868
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Birds in art; Animal painters; Pictorial works; Ornithological illustration; History; Birds; Biography; Zoological artists
Other titles: Complete work of J.G. Keulemans; Birds of New Zealand
Description: Presents the full set of artworks created by JG Keulemans for "A history of the birds of New Zealand" by Walter Buller.
Notes: "First edition published in New Zealand in 2012 by Te Papa Press, PO Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand. Reprinted in 2013. This edition published in 2014"--Title page verso.

The dust jacket unfolds into a poster. The poster is a chromolithograph (c. 1900) by William Shaw Diedrich Schmidt. The birds in Schmidt's work were based on the artwork of J.G Keulemans in Walter Buller's A history of the birds of New Zealand.

"This book reproduces the plates from Walter Buller's original History of the Birds of New Zealand (first edition, second edition and supplement) with a new introduction and foreword. This book is almost identical to the original Te Papa Press edition from 2012, but the format is smaller and the text extracts from Walter Buller have been removed"--Publisher's information.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-144) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Stephen Fry; title: Preface; title: Introduction : Fine bird books, Buller & Keulemans; title: List of plates; title: A history of the birds of New Zealand : first-edition plates; title: A history of the birds of New Zealand : second-edition plates; title: Supplement to the birds of New Zealand : supplement plates.