Elementos de Zoologia with 27 fine hand-colored lithographic

with 27 fine hand-colored lithographic plates by and after J

Pennant had previously employed Brown for two of the plates in his British Zoology

engraved title vignette

This fourth volume is the complete work on the fishes

The text is in Chinese with Latin names used throughout

Elementos de Zoologia with 27 fine hand-colored lithographicPp. viii, 479; 11 full page plates (some partly hand colored), some text charts and graphs. Publishers original one quarter red morocco leather, spine with four raised bands lettered in gilt in one compartment and with 6 decorative gilt panel lines, over thick marbled boards, lg 8vo. This volume is a general review of zoology by a well known Mexican herpetologist often referred to as the Father of Mexican Herpetology. There is a short section on