A monograph of the petrels (Order Tubinares).

London: Witherby & Co., 1907-1910.
Quarto, 106 handcoloured lithographs by Keulemans. Contemporary full morocco (five parts in a single volume), upper cover with gilt albatross, spine in five compartments with raised bands, original publisher's printed wrappers retained. Limited to 225 numbered copies of which this is a copy number 96, a few very minor blemishes otherwise a very good copy free of foxing.

THE MOST FAMOUS AND SPECTACULAR OF ALL PUBLICATIONS ON TRUE SEABIRDS (PROCELLARIIFORMES). Many of the world's seabirds, particularly the albatross species, are found in Australian and New Zealand waters.

Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919) was a founding member of the British Ornithologists' Union and collaborated extensively with Osbert Salvin. "It was Salvin's intention on the completion of the "Tubinares" for the twenty-fifth volume of the Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, to write a fuller account of the Petrels, and publish it as a monograph, illustrated by coloured figures of each species; for that purpose we had some forty plates prepared by Mr Keulemans, but Salvin's untimely death, in June 1898, put an end to this project" (preface p. ix)". Thus Godman with assistance from Robert Bowdler Sharpe completed Salvin's monograph and Bowdler Sharpe's daughters were responsible for the colouring.

Anker 163; Nissen IVB 356; Whittell p. 280; Wood p. 361; Zimmer p. 248.