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The discovery of a new genus of dolphins View picture(s) 1 BENEDEN, Eduard van. Mémoire sur un dauphin nouveau de la baie de Rio de Janeiro, désigné sous de nom de Sotalla Brasiliensis. (Brussels), 1873. 4to. Boards covered with marbled paper; spine with red morocco label lettered in gold. With two large folding plates of the dolphin itself (coloured) and its skeleton and various bones, lithographed by G. Severeyns at Brussel, and two illustrations in the text. 44 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Ichthyology  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous Dutch ichthyologist on Mauritius View picture(s) 2 BLEEKER, Pieter. Contribution à la faune ichthyologique de l'île Maurice. Amsterdam, Chez C.G. van der Post. 1878. Large 4to. Original wrappers. 3 coloured chromolithographes of fishes by L. Speigler, after the drawings by Bleeker of which 1 folding. (Chromolith. by Emrik & Binger). (1), 23 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Ichthyology  Mauritius  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French views on fishing View picture(s) 3 DRALET, Eugène François. Considérations sur l' histoire naturelle des poissons, sur la pêche et les lois qui la régissent. Toulouse, J.-M. Douladoure, 1821. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum, blue gilt title label on spine, with blue boards. 116 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fishing  Ichthyology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The fish of Scandinavia View picture(s) 4 FRIES, Bengt Fredrik, Carl Ulric EKSTRÖM & Carl Jakob SUNDEVALL. Skandinaviens Fiskar. Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söners forlag, (1892-1895). 2 text vols. and one atlas vol. Large 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed and gilt. Many lithographed illustrations of fish and details of fish in 2 text vols. and 55 chromolithographed plates in atlas vol. with beatifully depicted fish, mostly 3 to one page. Drawn and lithographed by W. von Wright assisted by Erdman, Thornam and others. Plates are intrerleaved with the original blue tissues. (8), 566, (10); (6), 671 (pp. 568-1279), (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fishing  Ichthyology  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Herring fishery and foreign relations, from the library of Professor Vrolik View picture(s) 5 GEVERS DEYNOOT, Willem Theodorus. Specimen oeconomico-politico-juridicum inaugurale, de Magno sive Halecum Piscatu Belgico, (Haringvisscherij). Leiden, J.W. van Leeuwen, 1829. Nineteenth century half blue morocco, spine ribbed and gilt. (6), 116 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Fishing  Ichthyology  Law  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Annotated copy, with author's portrait View picture(s) 6 HERMANN, Johann. Observationes Zoologicae quibus novae complures, aliaeque animalium species describuntur et illustrantur. Opus posthumum edidit Fridericus Ludovicus Hammer ... pars prior [all published]. Strasbourg, Armand Koenig (printed by Fischer), 1804. 4to. Mid-nineteenth-century red half cloth, "papier tourniquet" sides, Spanish-marbled endpapers. With a stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Christophe GUÉRIN. With extensive annotations. viii, 332 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Ichthyology  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important source for the study of zoology in Japan View picture(s) 7 JONSTON, John. Theatrum Universale Omnium Animalium Piscium, Avium, Quadrupedum, Exanguium, Aquaticorum, Insectorum, et Angium, CCLX. Tabulis Ornatum, Ex Scriptoribus tam antiquis quam recentioribus ... à J. Jonstonio collectum, Ac plus quam Trecentis Piscibus Nuperrime ex Indiis Orientalibus allatis ... locupletatum ... cura Henrici Ruysch ... VI. Partibus, duobus Tomis, comprehensum. Amsterdam, R. and G. Wetstein, 1718. 6 parts in 2 volumes. Folio (37 x 23.5 cm). Contemporary speckled leather bindings, spine with raised bands and richly gilt compartments, title and volumenumber gold-tooled. Title-pages to volumes I and II printed in red and black, 4 further half-titles, all titles with woodcut printer's device, full-page engraved frontispiece, 270 full-page engraved plates. (6), 40; (6), 160; (12), 1-96, 89-160; 10, 1-163, (1); (2), 1-58, (2); (4), 147, (1); (2), 1-6, 5-37, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anatomy  Ichthyology  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Circa 130 fish species in 48 plates View picture(s) 8 KIELSEN, Frederik Christian. Icones piscium. - Indicem systematicum. Copenhagen, Christian Steen (printed by Bianco Luno & Schneider), 1835. 8vo (24 x 15 cm). Modern stiff blue wrappers. With 48 numbered engraved plates showing about 130 species of fish from 57 genera. VI pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Ichthyology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the time when unicorns and dragons were still a common sight View picture(s) 9 MERCKLEIN, Georg Abraham. Neu ausgefertigtes historisch-medicinisches Thier-Buch in vier besonderen Theilen verabfasset; I. Von vierfüssigen Thieren ... II. Von Vögeln ..., III. Von Fischen ..., IV. Von Gewürm ... Sammt eine jeden Thiers Namen, Gestalt ... Eigenschaft. Wobei verschiedene, wieder allerhand Kranckheiten bewehrte Geness-Mittel: angezeiget. Nuremberg, Johan Friedrich Rüdiger, 1714. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Double-page engraved allegorical frontispiece engraved by Johan Lorentz Hönnig (Nurenberg), title printed in red and black on two facing pages, 95 full-page engraved plates each depicting two, three or more animals. [26], 732, [72] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Ichthyology  Illustrated Books  Medicine  Natural History  Ornithology  Textile  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Well-illustrated work on the Dutch whale- and herring-fishery in the Northern Seas and Greenland View picture(s) 10 RESTE, Bernard de. Histoire des pêches, des découvertes et des établissemens des Hollandois dans les mers du Nord: ouvrage traduit du Hollandois par les soins du Gouvernement, enrichi de notes & orné de cartes & de figures. Paris, Nyon the Elder & Sons, Widow of Nyon, 1791-1800. 3 volumes. 8vo. 19th-century green half shagreen, gold-tooled spine, sides with crowned gilt initials 'C.L.' With 28 engraved plates and maps (21 folding and 7 full-page). XXXVI, 432; 464; [4], 378 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Fishing  Greenland  Ichthyology  Natural History  Netherlands  Whaling  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Coloured by Maria Sibylla Merian View picture(s) 11 RUMPHIUS, Georg Everhard. d'Amboinsche rariteitkamer, behelzende eene beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde schaalvisschen, te  weeten raare krabben, kreeften, en diergelyke zeedieren, als mede allerhande hoorntjes en schulpen, die men in d'Amboinsche Zee vindt... Amsterdam, F. Halma, 1705. Folio. 19th-century green half calf. With hand-coloured engraved title, engraved portrait of the author, and 60 engraved plates after designs by Maria Sibylla Merian, who also coloured all of the plates. [32], 340, [44] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Conchology  Earth Sciences [Geology]  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Engravings  Ichthyology  Natural History  Shells  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully illustrated early work on fish View picture(s) 12 SALVIANI, Ippolito. Aquatilium animalium historiae, liber primus, cum eorumdem formis, aere excusis. Rome, the author, 1554 (on colophon last leaf dated january 1558). Folio. Later vellum, spine ribbed with gilt title. Engraved allegorical title with an architectural frame around a portrait of the author and decorated with marine motifs with the coat-of-arms of Marcello Cervini, the proposed dedicatee, on top, 81 full-page engraved illustrations of fish, of which 36 are plates, all 81 plates included in the signatures and foliation, many woodcut initials and a woodcut publisher's device on last leaf. (8), 256 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Fishing  Ichthyology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Five letters by Schlosser and Boddaert on a newly discovered lizard, rare fish, reptiles and amphibians View picture(s) 13 SCHLOSSER, Johan Albert. Epistola ad Ferdinandum Dejean, De lacerta Amboinensi. Brief ... aan Ferdinand Dejean, Behelzende eene naauwkeurige beschrijving der Amboinsche haagdis. Amsterdam, for the author, 1768. 5 works in one volume. Large 4to. Contemporary half sprinkled calf, red title label on spine. With folding engraved plate of the Amboinese lizard in two copies, one of which is beautifully handcoloured. (2), 18 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Germany  Ichthyology  Natural History  Reptiles & Amphibians  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most spectacular fishes from Hawaii in a leporello book View picture(s) 14 [HAWAII]. Hawaiian fishes. (Honolulu, James Steiner, c. 1910). Oblong 12mo., 12,5 x 17, 5 cm. Publishers red cloth, gilt title and illustration of a Hawaiian beach on frontcover. 12 beautifully chromolithographs of fishes (ca. 12 x 16cm.), folded in the form of a leporello book (concertina); captions printed in red. Advertisement for the Honolulu Aquarium pasted at back cover. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Fishing  Hawaii  Ichthyology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fish on the menue: good for your health View picture(s) 15 [NONNIUS, Ludovicus]. Ichtyophagia sive de piscum esu commentarius. Antwerp, Apud Petrum & Ioannem Belleros, 1616. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum, large paper label with allegorical illustration on spine, title lettered in ink. Woodcut vignette with the medical emblem on title, woodcut vignette of a lion, framed within a catouche, on verso, and several woodcut initials in the text. (16), 176, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fishing  Gastronomy  Ichthyology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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