Tentamen Herpetologiae Japan Date Published 1931 Date

Japan Date Published 1931 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near fine Condition Description The green cloth binding shows some minor edge wear

and with gilt emblem of the General Assembly of New Zealand Library on the front board

ISBN 0-02-860813-5 Limited Edition

folio (15 x 11

very neat pencil zoological annotations in the margins of same pages likely in the hand of James Hamilton Russell

Tentamen Herpetologiae Japan Date Published 1931 DatePp. (i) iv, (1) 72; 2 monochrome foldout copper plate engravings by Jan Wandelaar (unsigned). One half red morocco leather over marbled boards, sm 4to (20 cm width x 26. 7 cm height), bound by Fritz and Trudi of Philadelphia in 1976. This is Kleins best known work to herpetologists because in it he was the first to use the word for their discipline (herpetology, specifically, Herpeta in the nominative case on page 1 and herpetologiae in the objective