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Muskhelishvili, T. [A.]
Atlas of Georgian Amphibians and Reptiles.
Tbilisi, "World Wide Fond for Nature" [World Wide Fund for Nature], 1994. Large 4to (30.0 x 21.5 cm). 48 pp.; 30 full colour plates. Publisher's green mock leather with gilt title on the front board. Patterned endpapers.
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Pavlovsky, E. N.
Papers on Experimental Zoology and Toxic Animals.
Moskva, Akademii NAUK SSSR, 1963. Large 8vo (26.0 x 17.1 cm). 208 pp.; numerous text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth. Front board blind-stamped, and with gilt title; spine with gilt title. Printed errata slip bound in.
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Peters, W. C. H.
Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV in den Jahren 1842-1848 ausgeführt. Zoologie III. Amphibien. [Atlas with the highest number of coloured plates].
Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1882. Large 4to (34.0 x 25.0 cm). Title page, [v]-xv, 191 pp.; 33 lithographed plates [numbered I-XXVI, III.A, III.B, IV.A, IX.A, XIII.A, XIV.A, XIX.A] of which 28 originally hand-coloured. Contemporary quarter cloth over plain boards. original printed label on the spine.
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Pritchard P. C. H. and Trebbau P.
The Turtles of Venezuela. Color paintings by Giorgio Voltolina.
[Lawrence, KN], Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1984. Large 4to (27.3 x 21.0 cm). Two volumes (text, and plates). viii, 401 pp.; 47 full colour plates, 16 distribution maps. Uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title. In original burgundy cloth slipcase (28.9 x 22.4 x 6.0 cm). Top edge of the text volume gilt.
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Riedel, G. F. and F. Kirschner
Tabulae regni animalis, omnes VI classes animalium comprehendentes. Tabula Regni animalis. Tabula V classis IV Amphibia Reptilia.
Augsburg, Kaiserlich Franzische Akademische Handlung [1786]. Oblong folio (38.5 x 55 cm). Eight, uncut, copper engravings. All finely, and accurately hand-coloured. Loose, as issued, housed in a modern portfolio for protection.
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Schinz, H. R.
Fauna Helvetica oder Verzeichniss aller bis jetzt in der Schweiz entdeckten Thiere. Erster Theil. Verzeichniss der in der Schweiz vorkommenden Wirbelthiere.
Neuchatel, Allgemeine Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 1837. 4to (24.6 x 20.4 cm). Title to the Verzeichniss, title to the Wirbelthiere; 168 pp.; one hand-coloured lithographed plate. Mid-20th-century blue cloth. Spine with silver title. Speckled edges.
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