M. C. Cooke — Our Reptiles and Batrachians

London, W. H. Allen & Co. Limited, 1893 . Cloth. Colour-illustrated scientific text on British reptiles from the prominent Mordecai Cubitt Cooke. In publisher's original cloth binding.Featuring a frontispiece, illustrated title page and ten further plates, all in colour. Collated, complete.With forty-seven publisher's advertisements to the rear.An insightful scientific volume on a range of reptiles indigenous to Great Britain. First published in 1865 and written by successful English botanist Moredecai Cubitt Cooke, Kew mycologist and curator at the India Museum. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing and the odd mark. Internally, generally firmly bound with frontispiece loose. Stamp of Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club (Shropshire) to half-title page. Inscription from previous owner to title page. Bright and clean copy with only light spotting, more noticeable to the first and last few pages. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .