Les Batraciens de l’Indochine Chromolithographic plate

Chromolithographic plate

with 108 fine hand-colored engraved plates heightened with gum Arabic (4 hand-colored engraved plates of leaf shapes + 104 hand-colored engraved plates of flowers) and 108 uncolored plates printed in black (all plates in this work appear in two states

It presents some of the earliest accounts of North American reptiles especially of turtles (shown in 5 hand-colored plates) and salamanders (shown in 2 hand-colored plates - one is the hellbender salamander

This is the hardcover first edition

Catesby is painted and etched the plates

Les Batraciens de l’Indochine Chromolithographic platePp. x, 547 (6), 191 fine text figures, 1 map, 4 full page fine color plates. Early dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt panel lines at the head and foot of the spine, thick small folio (32 x 22. 5 cm). According to Adler, History of Herpetology, volume 1, p. 107: this is the first herpetological review of the amphibians of French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). From the private research collection of Cornell University