Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1834-54. 9 volumes in 10 + atlas. 8vo (210 x 119 mm, text; 244 x 147 mm atlas). Half-titles, errata, and 20 folding tables in text volumes. Frontispiece portrait, 120 engraved plates in atlas. Old library cloth. Scattered foxing (heavier at beginning and ends of text volumes), atlas title foxed, plates clean with occasional light spotting to margins, upper margin of half-title vol 3 partially torn away, spines of six volumes faded. Provenance: Bibliotheque Van Beneden (inkstamps with call numbers inked to half-titles or titles, labels to spines and upper covers). FIRST EDITION. A scarce and exhaustive 19th-century study of amphibians and reptiles, published over the course of two decades. Complete with the atlas of striking anatomical engravings of frogs, turtles, snakes, lizards, etc.
Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1834-54. 9 volumes in 10 + atlas. 8vo (210 x 119 mm, text; 244 x 147 mm atlas). Half-titles, errata, and 20 folding tables in text volumes. Frontispiece portrait, 120 engraved plates in atlas. Old library cloth. Scattered foxing (heavier at beginning and ends of text volumes), atlas title foxed, plates clean with occasional light spotting to margins, upper margin of half-title vol 3 partially torn away, spines of six volumes faded. Provenance: Bibliotheque Van Beneden (inkstamps with call numbers inked to half-titles or titles, labels to spines and upper covers). FIRST EDITION. A scarce and exhaustive 19th-century study of amphibians and reptiles, published over the course of two decades. Complete with the atlas of striking anatomical engravings of frogs, turtles, snakes, lizards, etc.
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