Author: Hoffmann, C. K. ["Bronn"]
Title: Dr. H. G. Bronn's Klassen und ordnungen des Thier-Reichs wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Band VI, Abteilung III: Reptilien. II: Eidechsen und Wasserechsen.
Description: Leipzig, Winter, 1890. Large 8vo (24.4 x 16.3 cm). pp. 443-1400; lithographed plates LI-CVII (one larger, folded; several coloured) and ten woodcuts in the text section; Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with gilt-lined raised bands and gilt title. Brown endpapers. = The complete lizard part of one of the most important standard works on reptiles and amphibians. The anatomical, osteological, and histological plates still are among the best ever made. Boards and spine much rubbed, boards detached. Stamps on the title page which is frayed and detached. In this copy, the plates are unusually clean, yet it is not much more than a working copy. Nissen ZBI, 4654.

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