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Sir Joseph Fayrer
(1824 - 1907)

The Thanatophidia of India, Being a Description of Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula



JOSEPH FAYRER, The Thanatophidia of India, Being a Description of Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula: With an Account of the Influence of their Poison on Life and a Series of Experiments, London: J & A Churchill, 1874

xii; half-title page; 166 pages including 28 chromolithograph plates and 3 lithographed plates by M & N Hanhart after Annoda Prosad Bagchee and others. The title page and the dedication pages are photocopies on a hard card paper and the appendix pages at the end are black and white photocopies of the original
Contemporary half leather bound with red cloth boards and gilt text at the spine
45 x 33 x 3 cm

The plates were drawn by students at the Calcutta School of Art, after original sketches by Fayrer. "One of the classics on venomous snakes.....The double-page illustration of the king cobra is one of the most imposing drawings of a snake ever published". Adler II, p 97; Nissen ZBI 1339; BMNH, p 560.







  Lot 55 of 101  

ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS AUCTION
15-16 JANUARY 2020

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