The Snakes of Australia; An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of all the Known Species.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Sydney: Thomas Richards 1869. Sm. 4to. In publisher's original cloth-backed printed boards and preserved in an elaborate full oasis fleece-lined folding solander case with gilt illust. inlay on front cover gilt borders & dec. spine. (xxvi 100pp.). Complete with the 12 full-page litho plates by Helena Forde and Harriet Scott as issued. The autograph of Donald F. Thomson the celebrated anthropologist on front fly-leaf; a desirable provenance. Fine copy. Ferguson 11247. NOTE: The first Australian reptile book written by 'the father of Australian Herpetology' and considered one of the most important of all 19th century natural history publications.