Pp. 326; 96 color plates (with 500+ individual photos), 400 small distribution maps, some text-figures. Publisher's original gray cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. No ownership marks and no signs of use.
Bill Branch, curator of herpetology at the Port Elizabeth Museum and chair of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature-African Reptile and Amphibian Group, is one of the world's top experts on the amphibians and reptiles of Southern Africa.