Descrizione

Amsterdam, G. L. Funke, 1870. 8vo (21.9 x 13.5 cm). Half-title, title page, [i]. v, 44 pp; 11 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Original printed boards. = A beautifully preserved copy of this well-illustrated work dealing with the reptiles, including snakes, and amphibians (toads, frogs, salamanders) of the Netherlands. Provenance: the fine, pictorial bookplate of the American zoologist and marine biologist Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) mounted on the front pastedown. First published in 1862 in Leiden. Small bookbinder's label in the lower margin of the front pastedown. Plate order is is I-VI (reptiles), followed by XI-VI (amphibians, i.e., in reversed order). Otherwise a very good, clean copy. Of this Amsterdam edition, Landwehr (170) only mentions the part on mammals. Landwehr, 169 (Haarlem edition).