205. Agassiz, Louis. Turtles of America. Embryology and Synopsis of. The
complete monograph of the Testudinata, as pub. in Contrib. to Nat.
Hist., of U. S. 2 vols., folio, 34 fine plates, plain and colored.
Boston, 1857.
$4.50
206. Baird, S. F. Atlas, Herpetology. Prepared under the Superintendence
of. Large folio, half mor., plates 1 to 23, inclus. (lacks 24 to 32),
finely engraved and colored. Being the Herpetology of the U. S.
Exploring Expedition during 1838-1842, under command of Charles Wilkes,
U. S. N. This atlas is complete as to the Batrachia and Ophidia; has
part of the Sauria, but lacks all the Chelonia. With 4to vol. of text by
C. Girard. 2 vols. Worth $30.00 complete. Phila., 1858.
$10.00
207. Barton, Benj. S. A Memoir Concerning the Fascinating Faculty Which
Has Been Ascribed to the Rattlesnake and Other American Serpents.
Philadelphia, Henry Sweitzer, 1796. 70 pp., together with “Supplement”
to same, in a “Letter to Prof. Zimmermann.” Phila., 1800. 40 pp., first
ed., very rare, 2 pieces.
$7.00
208. Barton, Benj. S. Supplement to A Memoir Concerning the Fascinating
Faculty of the Rattlesnake and other American Serpents. 12mo, paper, 40
pp. Phila., 1800.
$2.25
209. Barton, B. S. Some Account of the Siren Lacertina and Other Species
of that Genus, etc. In a letter from Prof. Barton of Phila. to John
Gottlob Schneider, of Saxony. A brochure of 33 pp., and a plate, of
which Barton states in the preface only 50 copies were printed for
select distribution among his friends. Phila., Jasper Harding, Printer,
1821.
$3.00
210. Bonnaterre, l’Abbe. Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des Trois
Regnes de la Nature. Erpetologie. Paris, 1789. Ophiologie. Paris, 1790.
2 vols. in 1, 4to, new half mor., all the fine copper-plate engravings
of Reptiles and Batrachians. Complete as to these subjects.
$3.75
211. Cook, M. C. Our Reptiles and Batrachians. The Lizards, Snakes,
Frogs, etc., Indigenous to Great Britain. 12mo, illus., col. plate ed.,
as new London, 1893.
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212. Cope, E. D. The Crocodilians, Lizards and Snakes of N. America.
1090 pp., 36 plates and illus. in text. U. S. Nat. Mus. Rep., 1898.
Paper covers. The most compendious and recent authority on this wide
subject. Wash., 1900.
$3.00
213. Fowler, H. W. The Amphibians and Reptiles of New Jersey. Paper
covers, 408 pp., 122 plates. Trenton, 1907.
$1.25
214. Garman, H. Synopsis of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Illinois.
Author’s ed. from Bull. Illinois State Laboratory N. History, vol. 3,
pp. 215 to 390, plates 9 to 15, inclus. Fine copy in pr. covers of this
rarity. Peoria, 1892.
$2.00
215. Holbrook, John E. N. American Herpetology. Description of the
Reptiles Inhabiting the U. S. Vol 1, 4to, new half mor., title-page and
some plates mended, but complete. Vol. 1 contains 23 colored plates.
This is the rare first ed. which the Author sought to recall from the
subscribers on the issue of the third vol. Phila., J. Dobson, 1836.
$8.00
216. Holbrook’s Herpetology. 63 odd plates, nearly all large paper from
ed. of 1842, 19 of serpents, 18 toads and frogs, 5 lizards, 8
testudinata, 13 salamanders, all colored except 3. Rare lot.
$8.00
217. Mitchell, S. Weir (M. D.). Researches Upon the Venom of the
Rattlesnake and the Anatomy and Physiology of the organs concerned.
Smiths. Cont. to Knowledge. Folio, pr. covers, 12 woodcuts, 145 pp.,
uncut. Wash., 1861.
$3.00
218. New Jersey Reptiles. Ann. Report of the N. J. State Museum on the
Amphibians and Reptiles of N. J., also of Fish. Frontis. and plates of
Reptiles and Fish, 408 pp. Trenton, 1907.
$1.25
219. Smith, W. H. The Tailed Amphibians, Including the Caecilians. A
Thesis. Presented to Faculty of Univ. of Mich. 12mo, 158 pp., full of
Folding Synoptical Tables. Detroit, 1877.
$1.50
220. Stejneger, L. The Poisonous Snakes of N. America. Paper, uncut, 19
plates. Wash., 1895.
$1.75