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, 72 pp. 16 chromolithograph plates. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, lightly cracked and a few flecks, otherwise a very good copy.

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 prolifically on reptiles, fish and mammals and was a world authority on the fish of Australian waters. A Popular Account of Australian Snakes is a handsome little publication, very scarce, and one of the most desirable of all Australian reptile books.

Ferguson 18029.