Antique Print-LACEPEDE’S GROUND SNAKE-LA GROSSE TETE-Hulk-Buffon-Lacepede-1799

Description ‘PL.XIV . 1. LA GROSSE-TETE. 2. LA COURESSE (..).’ Original antique print showing 1. Snake species. 2. Lacepede’s ground snake (Erythrolamprus cursor). Made by Abraham Jacobsz Hulk after Buffon-Lacepede. Engraving / etching on hand-laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 22.5 x 28.5 cm (8.86 x 11.22 inch). Image size: 15 x 20 cm. (5.91 x 7.87 inch). Condition: very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. LACEPEDE’S GROUND SNAKE-LA GROSSE TETE PCO-A35-29 BACKGROUND INFORMATION From: Histoire Naturelle Des Quadrupedes Ovipares Et Des Serpens [= Histoire Naturelle, Vols. XXXVII-XXXVIII]. Nouvelle Edition. Dordrecht, A. Bluss? And Son, 1799. By : Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc and Bernard Germain Etienne De La Ville-Sur-Illon, Comte De Lacepede. From the reptile and amphibian section of Buffon’s monumental work on the general and particular natural history. Many species (frogs, snakes, lizards, salamanders, turtles, etc.) are depicted in their natural habitat. The work is here in the new edition published at Amsterdam and Dordrecht, the only quarto edition to rival the original French Imprimerie Royale edition.