Author: Günther, A.
Title: Observations on some rare reptiles and a batrachian now or lately living in the Society's Menagerie.
Description: London, The Zoological Society of London, 1883. Large 4to (32.1 x 25.4 cm). 8 pp. [numbered 215-222], and five plates (two in fine hand-colouring). Original printed front wrapper. = The plates showing Chelys fimbriata (Schneid.), Metopoceros cornutus (Wagler), Tejus rufescens, and Ceratophrys ornata. Rare and sought after work by Günther on species mostly brought from South America to the Society's menagerie. The coloured plates are large and beautiful. Published in the Society's Transactions, vol. XI part 10. This part also contains a paper on fish new to British waters, by Günther (with one hand-coloured plate). Lacks the rear wrapper; front wrapper a bit foxed, library stamp in the bottom margin of the wrapper verso and two text pages; otherwise very good, unmarked. Vanzolini I, p. 139.

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