Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae by Wiegmann, Arend Fridericus Augustus - 1834
by Wiegmann, Arend Fridericus Augustus
Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae
by Wiegmann, Arend Fridericus Augustus
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Herpetology Mexicana was the earliest significant post-Linnean treatise on the lizards and crocodilians of Mexico. The first 21 pages of the book details Wiegmann's system of classification of the "Sauri,"– Lizards and Crocodiles. This section was initially published earlier in 1834 under the title "Systematis Saurorum Prodromus, e specimens herpetologiae Mexicanae primo seorsim editus."
The second part of the book consists of Weigmann's taxonomic treatment of the lizards and crocodiles of Mexico. Included are the descriptions of 32 new species of lizards, some of which had been briefly described earlier in Oken's Isis. Descriptions of seven new genera are also given, including Heloderma. All of the descriptions are based on specimens collected by Ferdinand Deppe and Count von Sack in the 1820s.
In 1969 the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles reprinted this work in a smaller format with black and white plates and an introduction by Edward H. Taylor — from which the information above can be found along with additional information about the collection and Wiegmann.
This book is one of the most difficult herpetological books to be found today with very few copies coming on the retail market in the last 60 years. In addition to it's scarcity, This large folio (12.5' x 18.75' or 31.75 cm x 47.5 cm) book is especially appealing because of its taxonomic importance and the ten beautifully hand-colored lithograph plates.
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- Date Published 1834
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- Keywords Mexico, Wiegmann, Reptiles, Lizards, Crocodiles, Herpetology
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Plate XXVI Wolverine. Gulo Luscus, Lin (Linnaeus).: The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
by Audubon, John James & Bachman, Rev. John .
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Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes
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A very clean copy of the most well known and most desirable book on amphibians. Some plates trimed close effecting plate numbers on colored plates xiv, xix & xx, and uncolored plates xix, xx, xxi, xxii and a small portion of image (head of a dissectng pin) on both versions of plate xix. Faint dampstain on upper, inside corner of text pages 59-74 and a couple of the plates in this section. "The present volume is one of the classics of amphibiology. The illustrations are of the finest and the whole work is admirably done. The title and text appear both in Latin and german and there is a preface by A. von Haller—altogether a very valuable, early contribution to the literature of the batrachia." — Wood, 1931. August Johan Roesel was born into an Austrian noble family in Augustenburg, near Arnstadt, Germany on March 30, 1705. Following the early death of his father, his godmother, the… Read More
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Insectivorous Plants
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Plate XXVI Wolverine. Gulo Luscus, Lin (Linnaeus).: The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
by Audubon, John James & Bachman, Rev. John .
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Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes
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A very clean copy of the most well known and most desirable book on amphibians. Some plates trimed close effecting plate numbers on colored plates xiv, xix & xx, and uncolored plates xix, xx, xxi, xxii and a small portion of image (head of a dissectng pin) on both versions of plate xix. Faint dampstain on upper, inside corner of text pages 59-74 and a couple of the plates in this section. "The present volume is one of the classics of amphibiology. The illustrations are of the finest and the whole work is admirably done. The title and text appear both in Latin and german and there is a preface by A. von Haller—altogether a very valuable, early contribution to the literature of the batrachia." — Wood, 1931. August Johan Roesel was born into an Austrian noble family in Augustenburg, near Arnstadt, Germany on March 30, 1705. Following the early death of his father, his godmother, the… Read More
Traité sur la Vénin de la Vipere sur les poisons Americains sur le Laurier-Cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végetaux. On y a joint des observations sur la structure primitive du corps animal. Différentes expériences sur la reproduction des nerfs et la description d'un nouveau canal de l'Oeil
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Insectivorous Plants
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Icones et Descriptiones Graminum Austriacorum. Vol. 1-3 (of 4). - [THE MOST MAGNIFENT WORK ON GRASSES]
by HOST, NICOLAUS THOMAS.
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