Contribution a l’etude Morphologique, Biologique et systematique des Amphibiens, Urodeles de la Chine This book weighs 36 pounds

This book weighs 36 pounds

and the other with plain plates

Many of the engraved plates depict the unusual mammals species encountered as well as the native people Le Vaillant met

A treasure-trove of information on the earliest recorded instances of whale harvesting

This monograph is based primarily on 14 months of fieldwork from 1921-1922 in the Riu Kiu islands (also known as the Loo Cho islands) that stretch between the Japanese island chain and Formosa (now Taiwan)

Contribution a l’etude Morphologique, Biologique et systematique des Amphibiens, Urodeles de la Chine This book weighs 36 poundsPp. 156, 5 full page plates (line drawings), 3 distribution maps, 20 text figures. Early brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. This volume is based on Changs Ph. D. dissertation which he completed in 1936 at the University of Paris. This monograph is the first complete study of Chinese salamanders (Adler, volume 2, p. 186). The work is warmly inscribed by the author to American herpetologist to Dr. E. R. Dunn; the inscription is in English.