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The Animal Kingdom Arranged According to Its Organization
by Baron Georges Cuvier 
First English Edition 1831

THE CLASS REPTILIA

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  CUVIER, B.: The CLASS REPTILIA arranged by the BARON CUVIER with Specific Descriptions by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon. London. Whittaker. 1831, the most comprehensive of the English translations. Large 8vo 10.5 inches x 6.5 inches [265mm x 165 mm]. Volume 9 of Cuvier's ANIMAL KINGDOM. Pp 481+ 110 page, supplement to the different orders or larger groups of them, in which many contributions are made to the illustration of zoology of reptiles and amphibians, especially of their natural habitats, slight foxing. 55 Engraved plates which includes 48 ORIGINAL HAND COLOURED PLATES, and 7 uncolored plates (as listed). Tight, clean and bright with only occasional marginal spotting. Bound in original half blue leather and marbled paperboards with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Most colored animal examples are one to the page and set in a scenic background. Animals described are snakes, crocodiles, salamanders, tortoise, lizards, toads, frogs and chameleon.

 

 

PLATE LIST

  1. Comparative View of Sub-genera of Tortoises . . ..

  2. Starred Tortoise............................

  3. Leopard Tortoise...........................

  4. Bell's Kinixys..............................

  5. Lake Erie Tortoise .........................

  6. Fun-owed Tortoise...........................

  7. Mud Tortoise..............................

  8. Long-necked Tortoise........................

  9. Coriaceous Turtle...........................

  10. Necks and Foot of Crocodiles, 1. ..............

  11. Necks and Foot of Crocodiles, 2. ..............

  12. Plate 5, of the' Regne Animal' ...............

  13. Double-crested Crocodile ............................

  14. Pike Muzzled Cayman..........................

  15. Varied Monitor...................................

  16. Great Dragon of Lacepede...........................

  17. The Ameiva and the Spurred Lizard...................

  18. Green Lizard, Fierce Algyra, and Eyed Tachydromus.. . .

  19. Uromastrix of Egypt...............................

  20. Spinous Agama....................................

  21. Orbicular Lizard...................................

  22. Frilled Lizard.....................................

  23. Clouded Lizard...................................

  24. Lophyrus Agamoides...............................

  25. Mitred Basilisk...................................

  26. Green Polycrus ...................................

  27.  Edward's Anolis...................................

  28.  Ilobed Cameleon...................................

  29.  Forked-nosed Cameleon .............................

  30.  Tiliqua of Malta...................................

  31.  Green Cophias.....................................

  32.  Short-tailed Viper..................................

  33.  Chuckeera-bora ......................................

  34.  Fasciateil Acrochorclus...................

  35.  Head of Great Python, &c. ...............

  36. Head.of Genus Coecilia, &c. ..............

  37. Durville's Pseudopus  ..................

  38. Punctated Amphisbeena ................

  39. Vertebrae of Boa-Constrictor, &c. ..........

  40.  The Jiboya.......... ..................

  41. Peron's Python........................

  42. The Common Snake, &c. ................

  43. Wanna Pam Snake......................

  44. Brazilian Varied Snake..................

  45. Striped-headed Coluber..................

  46. Ornamented Snake.....................

  47. Banded Blingarum......................

  48. Spiral Hydrus..........................

  49. White Faced Horned Frog, and Agua Toad

  50. Green Frog......... .................

  51. Variable or Green Toad.................

  52. Pipa............... .................

  53. Gigantic Salamander ....................

  54. Harlan's Menobranchus..................

  55.  Axolti.................................

 

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