Author: COOKE Mordecai Cubitt
Title: Our Reptiles. A Plain and Easy Account of the Lizards, Snakes, Newts, Toads, Frogs and Tortoises indigenous to Great Britain. With original Figures of every Species and numerous woodcuts. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY WITH PLAIN PLATES
Description: Robert Hardwicke,, 1865. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, 10 engraved plates (uncoloured) and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text; original plum cloth, upper board framed and blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, brown endpapers, covers mildly age-soiled, corners bruised else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With taxonomic appendix, and 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Deceptively detailed work, sometimes found with the plates coloured by hand. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman 783.

Keywords: natural history, reptiles & amphibians, reptiles, lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs, tortoises, mordecai cooke


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