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1334748276.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19553554907218001955. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Cape Town: Maskew Miller 1955. First Edition. Publisher pale green boards with brown lettering to the front board and spine. Grey end-papers. Spine slightly darkened particularly at the spine ends matching wear in the dustwrapper. Overall VG indeed. In the rare dustwrapper which is also in VG condition with a darkened spine and mild chipping at the spine ends not affecting any lettering. Laid in is an interesting price list from Fitzsimon's Snake Park Laboratory Durban South Africa with their price list for 1st January 1960 for Hyperimmune and Refined Anti-Snakebite Sea produced by Clinisearch Laboratories of South Africa offering protection from bites by Cobras Adders Rinkals and the Gaboon Viper. An interesting copy. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
181244167London Bulwer and Co. 1812. 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London." Year 1812 - Part I. Pp. 163-168 a. 3 engraved plates. unknown
19602110502150413048Chuokoronsha 1960. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Chuokoronsha paperback
Don, LariIn Pristine Condition. unknown
1880317394London: W.H. Allen 1880. First Edition. xvi 120 pp. 12mo. Publisher's green gilt lettered cloth. library markings to cover inside cover title and elsewhere with a withdrawal stamp from Wellcome Library to title verso otherwise a sound copy. First Edition. xvi 120 pp. 12mo. W.H. Allen unknown
98854First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo 133 pages being pages 146-277 in over 600 pages. Cloth lightly flecked; leading edges lightly foxed; endpapers offset and foxed; an excellent copy. Offered together with a copy of the Journal and Proceedings . for 1892 Volume 26 in similar condition containing a related article by the same author: The Venom of the Australian Black Snake 25 pages plus an illustration. These volumes also contains other lengthy interesting and important articles and would suit any budding polymath. The range includes HARGRAVE Lawrence: Paper on Aeronautical Works 8 pages plus 9 plates most of them folding and another on 'Flying Machine Work' 6 pages; DAVID T.W.E.: Notes on Antarctic Rocks collected by Mr C.E. Borchgrevink 31 pages plus a plate; ALLAN Percy: Timber Bridge Construction in New South Wales 19 pages plus 8 plates most of them folding; FRASER John: Some Folk-Songs and Myths from Samoa 38 pages in one volume 28 pages in the other; HAMILTON Alex: On the Effect which Settlement in Australia has produced upon Indigenous Vegetation 63 pages; and other articles on the languages of Ponape and Hawaii Oceanic languages and observations on Shell-heaps and Shell-beds. 2 volumes. hardcover
184333383Edinburgh: Maclachlan Stewart and Company 1843. VERY RARE First Edition in English from the almost as scarce French edition of 1837 printed in the Netherlands. With large fold-out map of the world showing the distribution of venomous snakes in seven colours and with two plates showing the heads of herpetodryas carinatus. 8vo in the publisher's original brown cloth the covers with panel designs in blind the spine ruled in blind and gilt lettered. vii 254pp 2 plates 1pp. errata. A very rare survival in very pleasing and fresh condition the text is nearly pristine the folding map and plates also in fine condition front endpaper slightly creased and with neat ownership marking of Dr. George Fair the hinges strong with no splitting to the paper the brown cloth is a bit mellowed and shows some fairly minor age at the tips and corners but is still quite attractive with bright gilt. VERY RARE IN THIS CONDITION AND IN ORIGINAL BINDING UNRESTORED. VERY RARE WE KNOW OF ONLY ONE OTHER COPY RECENTLY IN COMMERCE AND WORLD CAT LISTS THE NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER OF THE NETHERLANDS AS HAVING THE ONLY COPY IN INSTITUTION COLLECTIONS. Hermann Schlegel was a noted herpetologist of German origin who was a times both the Director of the Natural History Museum in Leyden and correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands. The English naturalist Charles Darwin knew of Schlegel's reputation from his close friend the British botanist and explorer Joseph Dalton Hooker.<br> No fewer that four snakes are named for Schlegel: Bothriechis Schlegelii the Eyelash Pit Viper; Calamaria Schlegeli the Red-Headed Reed Snake; Aspidomorphus Schlegelii Schlegel's Adder; and Afrotyphlops Schlegeliii the Beaked Blind Snake. Several species of reptiles amphibians and birds are named for him as well. Maclachlan, Stewart, and Company hardcover
