Venomous Snakes of Southern India Science Press Publisher Place Beijing

Science Press Publisher Place Beijing Date Published 2013 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description A fine (as new) copy

Image is of a Lesser Kestril or kestrel

lettered in white on the spine and front cover

green pictorial dustjacket with lettering in blue and orange

ISBN 81-7018-465-8 Limited Edition

Venomous Snakes of Southern India Science Press Publisher Place BeijingPp. (1, title page printed in silver and gilt), 12 hand colored photo lithographic plates, with captions naming the snakes in Latin, English, Tamil, Telugu, Hindustani, and Canarese, all with the original tissue guards. Later brown full grain goat skin leather, lettered in gilt on the front cover, with the original Victorian marbled endpapers preserved inside, small folio (350 x 270 mm). This is likely the rarest book on Indian snakes ever published.