Les Batraciens de l’Indochine Image is of a Indian

Image is of a Indian stag

Dolf Schumann and Gerhard Kirsten

It presents some of the earliest accounts of North American reptiles especially of turtles (shown in 5 hand-colored plates) and salamanders (shown in 2 hand-colored plates - one is the hellbender salamander

Petersburg Date Published 1898 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Very good Condition Description Wrappers a bit chipped along the spine

the text and plates of all volumes

Les Batraciens de l’Indochine Image is of a IndianPp. x, 547 (6), 191 fine text figures, 1 map, 4 full page fine color plates. Early dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt panel lines at the head and foot of the spine, thick small folio (32 x 22. 5 cm). According to Adler, History of Herpetology, volume 1, p. 107: this is the first herpetological review of the amphibians of French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). From the private research collection of Cornell University