Tentamen Herpetologiae very neat pencil zoological annotations

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

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

Here are each volume’s details: Ornamental Annuals (1844)

Publisher Published by the author Publisher Place London Date Published 1876-1880 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description Light scattered foxing to the blank endpapers only

Publisher’s original light green cloth

Tentamen Herpetologiae very neat pencil zoological annotationsPp. (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