Author: Ditmars, R. L.
Title: Reptiles of the World. Tortoises and turtles, crocodilians, lizards and snakes of the eastern and western hemispheres.
Description: London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1910. Thick 8vo (22.9 x 15.3 cm). [xix], 373 pp., full colour frontispiece, 89 plates. Original blind-tooled green cloth with gilt title on the spine and front board. Top edge gilt. = A special copy as a former owner tipped in many newspaper clippings, all dated and all from the 1930's. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, in pencil, Rgd. Y. Moor... [illegible], and dated 1930. The newspaper lower grade paper created offsetting to the text pages; otherwise in very good condition. Adler I, pp. 73-74. Neither in the Crane Library (which catalogue included a "special" Ditmars section), nor in Nissen.

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