Buller's birds of New Zealand : the complete work of JG Keulemans / [text by] Geoff Norman.

"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.

Foreword / by Stephen Fry -- Preface -- Introduction : Fine bird books, Buller & Keulemans -- List of plates -- A history of the birds of New Zealand : first-edition plates -- A history of the birds of New Zealand : second-edition plates -- Supplement to the birds of New Zealand : supplement plates.

Presents the full set of artworks created by JG Keulemans for "A history of the birds of New Zealand" by Walter Buller.