Historia Naturalis Ranarum In Qua Omnes Earum Proprietates Praesertim Quae Ad Generationem

by August Johann Rosel Von Rosenhof

$22,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Nuremberg: Johann Joseph Fleischmann, 1753 -1758. First edition of one of the most beautiful works devoted to frogs and toads, with a strikingly beautiful frontispiece after the author, preface by Alfred von Haller and plates depicting all the then known species of frogs and toads indigenous to the locality of Nuremberg. Wood describes the work as “one of the classics of amphibiology. The illustrations are of

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