Les Tortues de l'Indochine avec une note sur la pêche et l'elevage des tortues de mer par F. Le Poulain Publisher’s light green cloth

Publisher’s light green cloth

all of the other wrappers

Publisher privately printed Publisher Place Philadelphia Date Published 1875 Date Published Estimated No Edition Limited edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near fine Condition Description Light marginal browning to the some tissue guards protecting the six lithographed plates

lettered in gilt in one compartment and with alternating gilt decorations (falcons and crossed swords)

numerous text-figures (graphs

Les Tortues de l'Indochine avec une note sur la pêche et l'elevage des tortues de mer par F. Le Poulain Publisher’s light green clothPp. xiii, 235, (5, ads); 6 color plates, 48 black and white plates (mostly with multiple images), 11 text figures (including 1 map). Publishers original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt emblem on the front cover, brick red endpapers, lg 8vo. Originally published in Nhatrang, Annam by the Institut Ocanographique de l'Indochine in 1941; this fine SSAR reprint faithfully reproduces the original edition. This is the first