154 pages, illustrated with black and white plates. The covers are rubbed and chipped at the edges; the front paste down has had a bookseller's label removed, leaving behind a small remnant and an ownership signature crossed out with black texta; the verso of the front end paper has also had a label removed, lightly damaging the blank page and finally front and back end papers are foxed. The damage is superficial and aesthetic rather than structural and the book remains a clean, unmarked and solid copy, though blemished. 'Frederick William FitzSimons (6 August 1870 Garvagh, Ireland - 25 March 1951 Grahamstown), was an Irish-born South African naturalist, noted as a herpetologist for his research on snakes and their venom, and on the commercial production of anti-venom.....FitzSimons' interest in snakes is probably what he is best remembered for, and when he established a snake park at the museum for visitors, it was also to study snakes and snake-bites. From this he became a published authority on South African snakes and their venoms and he patented a (now outdated) first-aid and serum treatment kit." (Wikipedia)