Les Tortues de l'Indochine avec une note sur la pêche et l'elevage des tortues de mer par F. Le Poulain hand-made marbled endpapers

hand-made marbled endpapers

Rollers resemble crows in size and build

Wied's major work on the reptiles of North America

numerous text-figures (graphs

Publisher privately printed Publisher Place Philadelphia Date Published 1875 Date Published Estimated No Edition Limited edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near fine Condition Description Light marginal browning to the some tissue guards protecting the six lithographed plates

Les Tortues de l'Indochine avec une note sur la pêche et l'elevage des tortues de mer par F. Le Poulain hand-made marbled endpapersPp. xiii, 235, (5, ads); 6 color plates, 48 black and white plates (mostly with multiple images), 11 text figures (including 1 map). Publishers original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt emblem on the front cover, brick red endpapers, lg 8vo. Originally published in Nhatrang, Annam by the Institut Ocanographique de l'Indochine in 1941; this fine SSAR reprint faithfully reproduces the original edition. This is the first