A History of British Reptiles
- Publisher : John van Voorst
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : wood engravings
Description:
First edition. More than 40 woodcuts to text. Includes amphibians as well as reptiles.
Condition
8vo, cont. half leather, marbled boards, raised bands to spine; rubbed/scuffed, some wear to extemities. Conteporary manuscript note to foot of several pages (ink and pencil), one on specimens of R. esculenta sent from Foulness, July 1845, and several on various newt species observed at Gran[t]chester gravel pits, 1841. Original owner's signature (dated 1838) and printed ownership label to endpaper: G. Edmund Paget, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.