1949 Six-Legged Snakes in New Guinea

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of the work, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. With thirty one plates in half tone and eleven line illustrations in the text. Collated complete. By Evelyn Cheesman, a British entomologist and traveller. Cheesman went on eight solo expeditions in the South Pacific, and collected over 70,000 specimens. She wrote extensively on the subject, with this work focusing upon her expedition to New Guinea. An interesting work, profusely illustrated throughout.