Author: Mitchell, S. W. and E. T. Reichert
Title: Researches upon the venoms of poisonous serpents.
Description: Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1886. 4to (30.4 x 23.5 cm). ix, 186 pp., five fine chromolithographed plates. Contemporary burgundy cloth with gilt title on the spine. = An important early contribution by the first serious researcher of snake venoms, the American physician Silas Weir Mitchell (1827-1914), and Edward T. Reichert, Professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Disbound from the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Old bookplate on front paste-down, perforated library stamp on title, stamp on verso of plates. Text leaves brittle and partly detached from the spine. Plates - on better paper - good. Merely a working copy. Crane Library, AC313.

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