Etudes Zoologiques Sur La Faune du Lac de Tiberiade Suivies d'un Apercu sur la Faune des Lacs d'Antioche et de Homs. 1: Poissons et Reptiles du lac de Tiberiade et de Querlques Autres Parties de la Syrie...
Lyon: Museum de Histoire Naturelle de Lyon, 1883. Hardcover. 4to (large). Near Fine. Item #015947
New, blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, pp. 99-194pp, with 14 finely engraved plates (Plate 9 bound in upside down; 13 depict fish, with 1 snakes); library stamp on title page and verso of snake plate; a small bump on upper spine, near fine. Lbrary Binding Louis Charles Émile Lortet (22 August 1836 - 26 December 1909) was a French physician, botanist, zoologist and Egyptologist who was a native of Oullins. This is an important review of the fish and reptiles in and about the Sea of Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) and adjacent Syria, and surrounding areas. Scarce.
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