Indian Snakes: An Elementary Treatise on Ophiology with A Descriptive Catalogue of the Snakes Found in India

Pp. (10), 188, 20 plates (14 with some hand-coloring).  Publisher’s original brown cloth with gold embossed hooded Cobra on front cover and lettering in gilt on the spine, 8vo.  Signature of A. J. V. Bette, July 1903, an officer in the Indian Medical Service on the title page.  Occasional marginalia in the hand of A. J. V. Bette.  Old news-clipping on snake poisoning tipped onto the rear free endpaper.  The first printing of this work was published in 1874 in Bangalore without any illustrations.