The Herpetology of Cuba

Pp. 145, 15 monochrome plates (halftone drawings, fine line drawings and photographs).  Early tan cloth, lettered in black on the spine, outer page edges decorated with speckles, lg 4to.  Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 47, no. 2.  This is the rare first printing of this classic monograph on the reptiles and amphibians of Cuba.  Ten years after this publication, author Thomas Barbour became director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.  From the library of herpetologist Richard D. Worthington with his signature on the title and with his annotations in the text.  According to a note on the last endpaper, Worthington acquired the book from bookseller Eric Lundberg on January 25, 1966.  Rare work in the original printing.