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HOLBROOK, JOHN EDWARDS. North American Herpetology, or, A Description of the Reptiles inhabiting the United States. Philadelphia: J. Dobson 1842.
5 vols., 4to, 290 x 233 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.), half red morocco, rubbed, vol. 1 inner hinges cracked, occasional foxing or browning, mainly in vol. 5, some offsetting of text to plates, occasional mostly marginal soiling.
Second edition, 148 hand-colored lithographed plates, including an unused variant of plate 1 drawn on stone by G. Lehman instead of S. Cichowski and captioned "Testudo Carolina" instead of "Testudo polephemus", bound in as frontispiece to vol. 1; errata slips tipped in to contents leaves of vols. 1, 2, 4 and 5, two printed addendum slips tipped in to p. 83, vol. 2 ( description of Crotaphytus Collaris), and p. 118, vol. 5, errata leaf at end of vol. 5.
For this second edition many of the plates were reengraved, and 36 new plates were added. "The first systematic work on the reptiles of the United States ever attempted. The plates are beautifully colored; and the work is worthy of a place in the library of the naturalist by the side of Audubon and Wilson" (Sabin).
Bennett, p. 57; McGill/Wood, p. 388; Nissen ZBI 1980; Sabin 32454.
Provencance:
D. W. Peasley of Burlington, Iowa, inscriptions on title-pages
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (5)
5 vols., 4to, 290 x 233 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.), half red morocco, rubbed, vol. 1 inner hinges cracked, occasional foxing or browning, mainly in vol. 5, some offsetting of text to plates, occasional mostly marginal soiling.
Second edition, 148 hand-colored lithographed plates, including an unused variant of plate 1 drawn on stone by G. Lehman instead of S. Cichowski and captioned "Testudo Carolina" instead of "Testudo polephemus", bound in as frontispiece to vol. 1; errata slips tipped in to contents leaves of vols. 1, 2, 4 and 5, two printed addendum slips tipped in to p. 83, vol. 2 ( description of Crotaphytus Collaris), and p. 118, vol. 5, errata leaf at end of vol. 5.
For this second edition many of the plates were reengraved, and 36 new plates were added. "The first systematic work on the reptiles of the United States ever attempted. The plates are beautifully colored; and the work is worthy of a place in the library of the naturalist by the side of Audubon and Wilson" (Sabin).
Bennett, p. 57; McGill/Wood, p. 388; Nissen ZBI 1980; Sabin 32454.
Provencance:
D. W. Peasley of Burlington, Iowa, inscriptions on title-pages
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). (5)