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A monograph of the petrels (Order Tubinares).
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.
Large quarto, two volumes 574 pp. (lacks leaf 49-50- supplied in photocopy), coloured map, 187 handcoloured plates by William Hood Fitch (numbered 1-198) including 13 double page plates. Early half red morocco and green morocco grained cloth, some wear to both volumes but mainly confined to volume one, top edge coloured, other edges uncut. The bookplate of Alice de. V. Clarke in both volumes and three owner's signatures (John Amory Lowell, Alice de V. Clarke and Susan L. Clarke) on the half titles. All plates brightly coloured and with no obvious blemishes, some tissue guards present.
Octavo, 344 pp. 33 lithographed plates, including nine coloured by H. Gronvold. Publisher's cloth, rear hinge split, the library stamp of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, a bright crisp copy.