Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes Name stamp Ron Sauey Memorial

Name stamp Ron Sauey Memorial Library on rear endpaper and the top page edge

Kraig Alder

This is the very rare privately printed first edition that was limited to 50 copies only

ISBN 0-385-08758-6 Limited Edition

Historia naturalis Ranarum nostratium / Die naturliche Historie der Froesche hiesigen Landes Name stamp Ron Sauey MemorialPp. (10), viii, 116, 48 engraved plates (24 are hand colored each with a matching uncolored key plate), 1 hand colored frontispiece, engraved title page, 8 engraved headpieces in the text. Contemporary mottled calf, probably German, spine with 7 raised bands, gilt lettered on red morocco label in one compartment and with a repeating emblematic gilt scene showing St. Francis in the other 7 compartments, folio (17. 5 x 12 inches), in black cloth covered