Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes 1834 plate number 28

1834 plate number 28

Name stamp Ron Sauey Memorial Library on rear endpaper and the top page edge

This is the very rare privately printed first edition that was limited to 50 copies only

Kraig Alder

folding color map as frontispiece

Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes 1834 plate number 28Pp. (10), viii, 116, 48 engraved plates (24 are hand colored each with a matching uncolored key plate), 1 hand colored frontispiece, engraved title page, 8 engraved headpieces in the text. Contemporary mottled calf, probably German, spine with 7 raised bands, gilt lettered on red morocco label in one compartment and with a repeating emblematic gilt scene showing St. Francis in the other 7 compartments, folio (17. 5 x 12 inches), in black cloth covered