Reptiles & Amphibians.- Bonnaterre (Pierre Joseph) Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique... Erpétologie, 1 part (only of 3), 26 engraved plates, small water-stain to margins, 19th-century cloth-backed boards, slighty rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 4621], Paris, Panckoucke, 1789 § Lacepede (B.G.E.) Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens, 1 vol. (only of 2), first edition, engraved vignette and 41 plates, 1 folding table (of 2), contemporary calf, gilt spine with red and black morocco labels and paper label to foot, [Nissen ZBI 2350], Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1788 § Winkler (T.C.) Des Tortues Fossiles, conservées dans le Musée Teyler, 33 folding tinted lithograph plates, 1 or 2 plate descriptions loose, 1 or 2 marginal repairs to text, 'Hommage de l'Auteur' slip pasted to upper wrapper verso, original wrappers bound in, contemporary red half morocco, edges uncut, [Nissen ZBI 4423], Haarlem, 1869; and Shaw's 'Amphibia' section in 2 vol. from the 'General Zoology' series, 4to & large 8vo (5)

⁂ "The abbot and naturalist Pierre-Joseph Bonnaterre (1751-1804) produced one of the earliest illustrated encyclopedias of amphibians and reptiles of the world and was the first to use the French word 'Erpétologie'... Bonnaterre was also employed by the publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke to write the captions and superintend the production of the plates for several volumes in the series 'Encyclopédie Méthodique', an ernormous encyclopedia composed of 196 volumes (1782-1832). Some of France's most distinguished naturalists contributed to the natural section" (Adler II p.29).