Pp. 231, numerous full page color photos, many black-and-white photos, numerous fine line-drawings and maps. Publisher"s original cream-colored cloth, lettered in brown on the spine and with a brown image of a tortoise on the front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, in original cardboard slipcase. A lavishly illustrated survey of the world"s turtles, tortoises and terrapins. First published in German in Leipzig, this volume was translated into English in this first American edition.