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

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

Sydney 1869. Small 4to. Full calf with the orig. printed titling wrapper bound in plus assoc. provenance. Spine gilt and with raised bands. (xxvi 100pp.). Complete with 12 full-page orig. hand-coloured lithographed plates by Helena Forde and Harriet Scott. Fine. Ferguson 11247. NOTE: This being the first Australian reptile book written by 'the father of Australian Herpetology'. Only a few copies with coloured plates by the above artists were issued hence the coloured issue is exceedingly rare and is considered one of the most important of all nineteenth-century natural history publications.