A popular account of Australian snakes, with a complete list of the species and an introduction to their habits and organisation.
Sydney: Thomas Shine, 1898. Small octavo, Small octavo, with 16 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's cloth with diagonal gilt title, a very good copy, solander box. Edgar Waite is a significant figure in Australian zoology. He was director of the South Australian Museum from 1914 until his death in 1928. He wrote..... More