Les Batraciens de l’Indochine Image is of a Indian

Image is of a Indian stag

Forquignon et Raoult

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

Petersburg Date Published 1898 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Very good Condition Description Wrappers a bit chipped along the spine

Les Batraciens de l’Indochine Image is of a IndianPp. 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