Tentamen Herpetologiae very neat pencil zoological annotations

very neat pencil zoological annotations in the margins of same pages likely in the hand of James Hamilton Russell

Japan Date Published 1931 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near fine Condition Description The green cloth binding shows some minor edge wear

A special edition limited to 100 copies

The catalogue of fishes at the end of the work is of taxonomic importance since it lists all fishes known to Oppian in the 2nd century A

Tentamen Herpetologiae very neat pencil zoological annotationsPp. (i) iv, (1) 72; 2 monochrome foldout copper plate engravings by Jan Wandelaar (unsigned). One half red morocco leather over marbled boards, sm 4to (20 cm width x 26. 7 cm height), bound by Fritz and Trudi of Philadelphia in 1976. This is Kleins best known work to herpetologists because in it he was the first to use the word for their discipline (herpetology, specifically, Herpeta in the nominative case on page 1 and herpetologiae in the objective