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Calmette, [L. C.] A.
Venoms. Venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics. Translated by Ernest E. Austen, F.Z.S.
New York, NY, William Wood, 1908. Large 8vo (22.4 x 17.3 cm). Title page, xvi, 403 pp.; 125 fine text illustrations. Original burgundy buckram. Spine with gilt bands and title; front board with gilt title. Bevelled edges.
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Eremchenko, V. k. and N. N. Scherbak
Ablefaridnieh Yascheretsky Fauny SSSR I Sopredelnih Stran. [Ablepharine Lizards of the USSR and Adjacent Countries].
Fruze, Ilim, 1986. 8vo (21.5 x 14.5 cm). 171 pp.; 43 (groups of) text figures. Publisher's mustard cloth with brown title and gilt vignette on the front board. Light blue endpapers. Errata slip loosely inserted.
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Gaignepain, L. H.
Dissertation sur les effets du venin de la vipère; présentée et soutenue à l'Ecole de Médecine de Paris, le 12 fevrier 1807.
Paris, Didot Jeune, 1807. Large 4to (25.3 x 19.8 cm). 24 pp., including title page, numbered [i]-vi, 7-24. Later marbled boards. Spine with brown leather label with gilt title.
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Guichenot, A. [A. T.]
Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie, pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Sciences physiques. Zoologie. V. Histoire naturelle des reptiles et des poissons.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1850. Folio (37.0 x 28.1 cm). Half-title, title page Sciences physiques Zoologie V, with engraved vignette, half-title (to the reptiles and fish); iv, 144, [iv] pp., half-title (to the atlas); 12 plates (four of reptiles and amphibians, eight of fish). The plates are colour-printed engravings à la poupée and then finished by hand. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Günther, A. [C. L. G.] [Gunther, Guenther]
Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the Collection of the British Museum.
London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1858. Small 8vo (21.6 x 13.3 cm). xvi, 160, 8 pp.; 12 finely lithographed plates. 20th-century black buckram with silver title on the spine.
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Günther, A. [C. L. G.] [Gunther, Guenther]
Observations on some rare reptiles and a batrachian now or lately living in the Society's Menagerie.
London, The Zoological Society of London, 1883. Large 4to (32.1 x 25.4 cm). 8 pp. [numbered 215-222], and five plates (two in fine hand-colouring). Original printed front wrapper.
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Klauber, L. M.
A Key to the Rattlesnakes. with Summary of Characteristics.
San Diego, CA, The San Diego Society of Natural History, 1936. Large 8vo (25.7 x 17.0 cm). Title page, 91 pp.; 112 (groups of) illustrations, including many on photos of living animals on glossy paper. Mid-20th-century blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Krefft, [J. L.] G.
Snakes of Australia. Illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species.
Sydney, T. Richards, 1869. 4to (26.3 x 20.3 cm). xxv, 100 pp.; 12 originally hand-coloured lithographed plates, and several text illustrations. Early 20th century, beautiful, full brown morocco binding. Spine with five raised, gilded bands; compartments rich gilt with floral corner pieces and arabesque vignettes. Boards with gilt-lined panels, gilt-ornamented edges, and gilt-rolled floral inner dentelles. Marbled pastedowns.
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Lacepède, [B. G. É.]
Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi. Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens. Tome premier - second. [Complete].
Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1788-1789. Two parts in two. 4to (25.3 x 19.3 cm). Title pages with allegorical engraved vignettes, numerous engraved head and tail pieces. 1216 pp. [5-18, 651; 5-8, 20 (including eulogy of Buffon), 527]; 63 engraved plates [41; 22] large, multi-folded table. Uniform contemporary full tree calf. Spines with five raised bands, rich gilt compartments with floral vignettes, two morocco labels with gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges.
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McDowell, S. B. and C. M. Bogert
The systematic position of Lanthanotus and the affinities of the anguinomorphan lizards.
New York, NY, The American Museum of Natural History, 1954. Large 8vo (27.0 x 19.8 cm). 142 pp.; 42 (groups of) fine text figures, 16 b/w plates, one folded chart. Original printed wrappers.
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