The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana

Pp. 295, 132 color photos on 19 full page plates, color pictorial endpapers, 42 black-and-white photographs, numerous distribution maps.  Publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, lg 4to.  Presents an important survey of this southern African country describing more than 200 species in detail.  This cloth hardcover printing, as offered here, is extremely rare.  In forty years of book selling, I have only seen the softcover printing, never this hardcover printing.