Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles (General Herpetology or Complete Natural History of Reptiles), in six volumes, complete

Pp. 6986; 120 plates with color illustrations, 120 plates with black-and-white illustrations.  Publisher’s red cloth, with black title/author boxes on the spine and front cover that are lettered in gilt, panel lines in gilt on the spine and surrounding black boxes on the spine and front cover, thick 8vo.  A full-size facsimile reprint of the historically important work Erpétologie Générale originally published between 1834 to 1854 in 9 volumes plus an atlas of color plates.  This reprint is limited to 400 copies only.  The text is in French with a 107-page introduction in English by Roger Bour.  This reprint is from the SSAR series “Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology.”  Erpétologie Générale has never been reprinted, yet it remains of continuing value to a broad community of academic zoologists, museum and zoo curators, and conservationists, and especially to herpetologists working in developing countries.  As this set is in 6 volumes, extra postage will be required to ship the set.