Snakes: A Natural History
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1997. Profusely illustrated in color. 220 pages, slim 4to, pictorial wrappers. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., (1997). First paperback edition. A very good copy. More
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1. Natrix Torquata 2. Natrix Torquata Senescens
Roma: Dalla Tipografia Salviucci, 1841. Lithograph with hand colored embellishments. Measures 15" x 10 7/8" Beautiful print of species of grass snake or water snake, from "Iconografia della Fauna Italica Per Le Quattro Classi Degli Animali Vertebrati", published between 1832-1841. Carlo Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1803-1857) was a French biologist and ornithologist. As the nephew of Napoleon and the 2nd Prince of Canino, he was raised in Italy but moved to Philadelphia shortly after marriage, where he worked alongside Alexander..... More
Vipera Ammodytes
Roma: Dalla Tipografia Salviucci, 1841. Color lithograph with hand-colored embellishments. Measures 15" x 10 7/8" Beautiful print of a horned viper snake, from "Iconografia della Fauna Italica Per Le Quattro Classi Degli Animali Vertebrati", published between 1832-1841. Carlo Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1803-1857) was a French biologist and ornithologist. As the nephew of Napoleon and the 2nd Prince of Canino, he was raised in Italy but moved to Philadelphia shortly after marriage, where he worked alongside Alexander Wilson, updating his..... More
Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique ...Ophiologie.
Paris: Panckoucke, 1790. 76 pages of text plus 43 copper engraved plates, 5 double paged. 4to, leather backed boards, (rubbed). Paris: Panckoucke, 1790. Very good (+). This volume on serpents, complete in itself, is part of a large encyclopedic work modelled on Diderot. Clean, crisp copy. Scarce. More
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