Venomous Snakes of Southern India Image is of a Lesser

Image is of a Lesser Kestril or kestrel

470+ color photographs

ISBN 0-589-07176-9 Limited Edition

Thailand Date Published 1987 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description A fine copy

Publisher Place London Date Published 1867 Date Published Estimated No Edition First Number of Volumes Reprint No Condition Near Fine Condition Description A few scattered text pages with mild foxing

Venomous Snakes of Southern India Image is of a LesserPp. (1, title page printed in silver and gilt), 12 hand colored photo lithographic plates, with captions naming the snakes in Latin, English, Tamil, Telugu, Hindustani, and Canarese, all with the original tissue guards. Later brown full grain goat skin leather, lettered in gilt on the front cover, with the original Victorian marbled endpapers preserved inside, small folio (350 x 270 mm). This is likely the rarest book on Indian snakes ever published.