Les Tortues de l'Indochine avec une note sur la pêche et l'elevage des tortues de mer par F. Le Poulain He was apothecary to James

He was apothecary to James I and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617

From: George Shaw and Frederick Polydore Nodder's "Vivarium Naturae or The Naturalist's Miscellany

Publisher Finska Litterattur-Sallskapets Trycheri Publisher Place Helsingfors Date Published 1879-1888 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint Condition Fine Condition Description Very light foxing to the final few color plates

This is the classic early work on the living and fossil echinoderms by Louis Agassiz that was printed privately

Les Tortues de l'Indochine avec une note sur la pêche et l'elevage des tortues de mer par F. Le Poulain He was apothecary to JamesPp. xiii, 235, (5, ads); 6 color plates, 48 black and white plates (mostly with multiple images), 11 text figures (including 1 map). Publishers original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt emblem on the front cover, brick red endpapers, lg 8vo. Originally published in Nhatrang, Annam by the Institut Ocanographique de l'Indochine in 1941; this fine SSAR reprint faithfully reproduces the original edition. This is the first