Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche [with three supplements].

1881-1891.
Quarto, four volumes, 2690 pp. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards, some minor marginal staining in volume one, publisher's blue wrappers retained, very scarce.

A complete set with the three later published supplements of the first major taxonomic review of the avifauna of New Guinea.

Tommaso Adlard Salvadori (1835–1923) was an Italian zoologist and a leading nineteenth century taxonomist. He wrote the parrot, pigeon and waterfowl volumes for the Catalogue of birds of the British Museum and had a number of animals named in his honour, including the Papua monitor Varanus salvadorii and the monotypic Salvadori's teal Salvadorina waigiuensis.

Wood p. 549; not in Zimmer.