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Klauber, L. M.
A Key to the Rattlesnakes. with Summary of Characteristics.
San Diego, CA, The San Diego Society of Natural History, 1936. Large 8vo (25.7 x 17.0 cm). Title page, 91 pp.; 112 (groups of) illustrations, including many on photos of living animals on glossy paper. Mid-20th-century blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Krefft, [J. L.] G.
Snakes of Australia. Illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species.
Sydney, T. Richards, 1869. 4to (26.3 x 20.3 cm). xxv, 100 pp.; 12 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates, and several text illustrations. Early 20th century, beautiful, full brown morocco binding. Spine with five raised, gilded bands; compartments rich gilt with floral corner pieces and arabesque vignettes. Boards with gilt-lined panels, gilt-ornamented edges, and gilt-rolled floral inner dentelles. Marbled pastedowns.
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Lacepède, [B. G. É.]
Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi. Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens. Tome premier - second. [Complete].
Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1788-1789. Two parts in two. 4to (25.3 x 19.3 cm). Title pages with allegorical engraved vignettes, numerous engraved head and tail pieces. 1216 pp. [5-18, 651; 5-8, 20 (including eulogy of Buffon), 527]; 63 engraved plates [41; 22] large, multi-folded table. Uniform contemporary full tree calf. Spines with five raised bands, rich gilt compartments with floral vignettes, two morocco labels with gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges.
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McDowell, S. B. and C. M. Bogert
The systematic position of Lanthanotus and the affinities of the anguinomorphan lizards.
New York, NY, The American Museum of Natural History, 1954. Large 8vo (27.0 x 19.8 cm). 142 pp.; 42 (groups of) fine text figures, 16 b/w plates, one folded chart. Original printed wrappers.
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Muskhelishvili, T. [A.]
Atlas of Georgian Amphibians and Reptiles.
Tbilisi, "World Wide Fond for Nature" [World Wide Fund for Nature], 1994. Large 4to (30.0 x 21.5 cm). 48 pp.; 30 full colour plates. Publisher's green mock leather with gilt title on the front board. Patterned endpapers.
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Pavlovsky, E. N.
Papers on Experimental Zoology and Toxic Animals.
Moskva, Akademii NAUK SSSR, 1963. Large 8vo (26.0 x 17.1 cm). 208 pp.; numerous text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth. Front board blind-stamped, and with gilt title; spine with gilt title. Printed errata slip bound in.
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Peters, W. C. H.
Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV in den Jahren 1842-1848 ausgeführt. Zoologie III. Amphibien. [Atlas with the highest number of coloured plates].
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1882. Large 4to (34.0 x 25.0 cm). Title page, [v]-xv, 191 pp.; 33 lithographed plates [numbered I-XXVI, III.A, III.B, IV.A, IX.A, XIII.A, XIV.A, XIX.A] of which 28 originally hand-coloured. Contemporary quarter cloth over plain boards. original printed label on the spine.
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Pritchard P. C. H. and Trebbau P.
The Turtles of Venezuela. Color paintings by Giorgio Voltolina.
[Lawrence, KN], Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1984. Large 4to (27.3 x 21.0 cm). Two volumes (text, and plates). viii, 401 pp.; 47 full colour plates, 16 distribution maps. Uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title. In original burgundy cloth slipcase (28.9 x 22.4 x 6.0 cm). Top edge of the text volume gilt.
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