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I am always looking for any Rare or Antiquarian books. Specific titles published prior to 1920 are listed here. However I am interested in Any Herpetological Literature published prior to 1920. This includes, Books, Papers, Journals with herpetological papers, Dissertations, Reports, Letters by or to herpetologists, Manuscripts, Plates from books, Photographs of Herpetologists, etc. Of course publications in any language are desired.

Reprints: I am also interested in bulk lots of herpetological papers or publications, especially if they are not from the Journal of Herpetology, Herpetologica, or the new series of Copiea. Of course publications in any language are desired.

Dissertations: Send a copy of your Thesis and/or dissertation and receive: $40 in trade (bound original) All herpetological topics wanted. Please inquire for more information. I am also interested in any other Theses of Dissertations that may be available, especially older ones. Of course publications in any language are desired.

Reports: I am always looking for "unpublished" reports. Any "gray literature," such as Government publications, and other reports of contract work completed.

Journals: Journals or issues that contain herpetological papers are always wanted. Especially journals published outside the United States, or that are no longer being published. Specific wants are listed at the bottom of this page.

Manuscripts, Letters, & Photographs: Original manuscripts of herpetological papers and books, Letters by or to herpetologists, and photographs of herpetologists may be wanted. Especially if they are more than 50 years old.

Book Plates: Original plates illustrating Amphibians and Reptiles from publications printed prior to about 1900. The entire publications is always more desirable than the plates only. PLEASE do not destroy a book for the plates.

Permanent Wants: Any of the scientific publications by the following authors: Frank Blanchard, Charles Bogert, Jose Cei, Doris Cochran, Roger Conant, Edward D. Cope, Henry Fitch, Vivian Fitzsimons, Howard Gloyd, Laurence Klauber, Charles Pitman, Ikio Sato, Malcolm A. Smith, Edward Taylor, John Van Denburgh, and Andre Villiers to name a few.

Specific Wants

Please let us know if you have any of the following books that you are willing to trade or sell

Angel, F. 1933. Les Serpents de l'Afrique Occidentale Francaise. Bull. Com. Etudes. Hist. Sci. AOF

Angel, F. 1942. Les Lézards de Madagascar. Mem. Acad. Malgache, 194 pp.

Barbour, T. and A. Loveridge. 1928. A comparative study of the herpetological faunas of the Uluguru and Usambara mountains, Tanganyika territory, with descripbons of new species. Harvard Mem. MCZ

Bateson. 1984. Materials for study of variation. London

Bieling, R.a.o. 1936. Die europaischen und mediterranen Ottern und ihre Gifte.

Bodenheimer, F.S. 1944. Introduction into the knowledge of the Amphibia and Retilia of Turkey, Rev. Fac. Sci. de L' Universite' d' Istandbul, IX, 1.

Bojanus, L.H. 1961. Testudinis Europaeae. SSAR reprint (or any other edition)

Bourgeois, M. 1965. Contribution a la Morphologie Comparee du Crane des Ophidiens de l'Afrique Des Publications de L'Universite Officielle du Congo a Lubumbashi, vol. 18:5-294.

Bourret, R. 1941. Les tortues de l'Indochine. Notes Inst. Oceanographique de l'Indochine, Stn. Marit. Cauda, Nhatrang. 235 pp.

Bourret, R. 1942. Les batraciens de l'Indochine. Mem. Inst. Oceanographique d'Indochine, Hanoi. 547 pp.

Boycott & Bourquin 1989. The South African Tortoise Book.

Broadley, D. 1971. Amphibians and Reptiles of Zambia.

Chabanaud, F. 1922. Mission Guy Baubalt dans les Indes Anglaises, Reptiles et Batraciens.

Chang: Amphibiens Urodèles de la Chine (1936 or reprint)

Corkill, N.L. 1932. Snakes and Snake Bite in Iraq. Privately published. 4o Cloth

Dollfus, R.P. and C. Beaurieux. 1928. Tableau pour la determination facile des serpents du Maroc. Empire Chérifien Archives scientifique du protectort Francais 1:

Ekvtimishvilli, Z. 1948. Guide to the Amphibians of Georgia. Teknika da Shroma Publ., Tbilisi. 62 pp.

Fretey. 1987. Les tortues de Guyane Française.

Frost, D. 1985. Amphibian Species of the World. Assoc. Syst. Coll., Lawrence, Kansas. pp.

Fuhn. 1960. Fauna Republicii Pop. Romania. Amphibia. (Bucharest)

Gabe and S. Girons. 1964. Contribution a L'Histologie de Sphenodon Punctatus Gray.

Gans (ed.) Biology of the Reptilia (especially volumes 1-9 and 13)

Gloyd: The Rattlesnakes, Genera Sistrurus and Crotalus (1940 or reprint)

Hemmer and Alcover. 1984. Historia Biologica del Ferreret.

Hodl, W. 1995. Ein Frosch zeigt Flagge - verhaltensoologische Beobachtungen an Bergbachfroschen des brasilianischen Kustenregenwaldes. TI Magazin. (125):46-51.

Huang, M.-H. and Y.-F. Qu. 1983. The hundred-pace viper (Agkistrodon acutus). Science Press, Beijing. 196 pp.

Joger. 1984. The Venomous Snakes of the Near and Middle East.

1972-78. Materials for Herpetological Research (Chinese). 1-4:

Kampen, V. 1923. Amphibians of the Indo-Australian Archipelago.

Kang, Y.S. and I.B. Yoon. 1975. Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fauna and Flora of Korea. Samhwa Publ. Co., Seoul. 192 pp.

Khan, M.A.R. 1987. Banglar Bonnyoprani. Bangla Academy, Dhaka. 169 pp.

Lanza. 1983. Anfibi, Rettili.

Linsdale. 1940. Amphibians and reptiles in Nevada. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sciences 73(8):

Loveridge. 1947. Revision of African Gekkonidae.

Loveridge and Williams. 1957. Revision of the Tortoises and Turtles of Africa: Suborder Cryptodira. Bull. Mus. Comp Zoo.

Loveridge, A. 1924. Check list of the Reptilia recorded from the British Territories in East Africa. J. of the east African and Uganda natural history Society Special publ. #3):1-16

Loveridge, A. 1944. Further revisions of African snake genera. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. 95:

Lynch. 1971. about "zoogeography, osteology, and evolutionary relationships of Leptodactyloid frogs". UKMNH Misc. Publ. #53

Melancon. 1950. Inconnus et meconnus amphibiens et reptiles Prov. Quebec. (Quebec)

Nieuwkoop, P.D. and J. Faber. 1967. Normal Table of Xenopus laevis. Amsterdam

Okada, Y. 1930. Monograph of the frogs of the Japanese Empire. Iwanami, Tokyo. 234 pp.

Okada, Y. 1935. Amphibia and Reptilia of Jehol. Rep. First Sci. Exp. Manchoukuo, Tokyo. Amphibia, 47 pp. Reptilia, 76 pp. pp.

Olmo, E. 1990. Cytogenetics of Amphibians and Reptiles. Basel

Öshima. 1920. Notes on the Venomous Snakes from the islands of Formosa and Riu Kiu. (Taihoku)

Paraskiw, K.P. 1956. The Reptiles of Kazakhstan. Acad. Sci. Kazakhstan, Alma Ata. 228 pp.

Parent, G.H. 1984. Atlas des batrachiens et reptiles de Belgique. Cahiers d'Ethologie Appliques, Liege 4(3):1-198

Roze, J.A. 1966. La Taxonomia y zoogeografia de los ofidios de Venezuela. Edic. Bib. U.C.V. 343 pp.

Sato, I. 1943. A monograph of the tailed Batrachians of Japan. Nippon Shuppansha, Osaka. 520 pp.

Skead. 1973. Zoo-historical Gazeteer, Ann. cape Prov. Mus.

Taylor, E.H. 1922. The Lizards of the Philippine Islands. Dept. Agric. and Nat. Res., Bur. Sci., Manila. 269 pp.

Taylor, E.H. 1951. A brief review of the snakes of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas. Sci. Bull. 34:1-188

Taylor, E.H. 1951. A review of the lizards of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas. Sci. Bull. 38:3-322

Underwood. 1967. A Contribution to the Classification of Snakes. Trustees of the British National Museum.

Villiers, A. 1958. Tortues et crocodiles de l'Afrique noire francaise. IFAN, Init. Africaines 15:1-354

Witte, D. 1962. Genera des Serpentes du Congo et du Ruanda-Urundi.

Won, W.K. 1971. Amphibian and Reptilian fauna of Korea. Kwahagwon Chulpansa, Pyongyang. 170 pp.

Woodbury, A. M. 1931. The Reptiles of Utah.

Wright and Wright. 1962. Handbook of Snakes Volume 3 (Wright's privately published edition only).

Zietz. 1920. Catalogue of Australian Lizards.

Periodicals:

Amphibia-Reptilia (vols. 1-14)

British Journal of Herpetology, vols. 1-4, 6(1-4, 6)

Bulletin de la Societe Herpetologique de France (vols. 1-40, 49, 59)

Bulletin of the Antivenin Institue of America (1927-32) (Original or reprint)

Bulletin of the British Herpetological Society (1-17)

Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society (1-23)

Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 1, 2(1,3-4), 3-4, 5(2-4), 6-7, 8(1, 3-4), 9(2-3), 10(1), 13(1,4), 14(3), 18(2)

Cladistics (vol. 1, nos. 1-2)

Copeia 85,89,95-97,103,111,119,153, (Most complete volumes also of interest)

Evolution 6(2), 7(3), 9(2), 35(1)

herpetofauna (Germany) 2-5, 81-present

Herpetofauna (Australia) vols. 1-7(1), 10(1), 11(1), (all issues prior to volume 20)

Herpetofauna News 1-3, 6, 8

Herpetological Association of Zimbabwe Newslwetter No. 1

Herpetological Journal 1(1-3)

Herpeton (India) all

Japanese Journal of Herpetology vols. 1-11, 12(1-2)

Journal of Herpetology vols. 1, 2, 3(1-2),4-6, 7(1)

Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 7-25, 30

Journal of the Herpetological Association of Rhodesia all issues

Monitore Zoologico Italiano, suppl. vol. 1

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 33-37, 42-present

Revista de Herpetologia Espanol, vol. 1

Salamandra vols. 1-18

Sauria vols. 1-4 (except 1(1) and 2(1))

Spolia Zeylanica vols. 1-6, 22

Systematic Zoology 2(2-4), 8(3), 10(2), 13(2), 18(2), 22(1,4), 23, 24(1-3), 25-30, 36(1)

Zoological Record - Amphibia & Reptilia vols. 1-80

Zoological Record -Amphibia 94, 106-126

Zoological Record-Reptilia 101-102, 107, 111-126

I am also interested in individual issues and partial sets of the following : Nova Acta Leopoldina (pre 1860), Isis von Oken, Archiv fÅr Naturgeschichte (pre 1923) and any museum or university publication series (especially non North American) containing herpetological papers, as well as collections of reprints or shorter papers dealing with amphibian and reptile morphology and systematics.




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