A GUIDE TO THE SNAKES OF UGANDA (Limited edition)

First edition: 362 pages, coloured frontispiece, 22 coloured plates – plate U bound out of sequence opposite page 48, 18 black and white plates of line drawings, 2 folded maps, light foxing at the edges of several plates, simply recased in half blue leather with matching cloth boards - there are marks on the boards and the spine, the gilt title on the spine is slightly faded, a good copy.

The pasted down limitation on the front free end paper read: This edition is limited to five hundred copies of which this is number 114.

In 1924 Pitman was offered the position of Game Warden of the Uganda Protectorate. He assumed this post which he held from 1925-1951. Correspondence was one of the primary ways in which Pitman conducted his zoological, herpetological, and ornithological research, as he relied almost solely on his own observations or the first-hand observations of others for data. This is particularly apparent in his files relating to the second edition of his Guide to the Snakes of Uganda (1974).

This book, which was originally published in serial form in the Uganda Journal (1936-1937), is the foundation for Pitman's herpetologist reputation as a methodical and exhaustive herpetologist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pitman_(game_warden)