Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX : jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis augustissimi peracto

Title Variants

Alternative: Selecta genera et species piscium Brasiliensium

By

Spix, Johann Baptist von, 1781-1826 , author

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 , illustrator
Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von, 1794-1868 , writer of preface

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Monachii, Typis C. Wolf, 1829-[1831]

Notes

Selecta genera was issued in two parts: pages 1-82 and the first 48 plates, in 1829, the remainder in 1831.

Frontispiece portrait of Spix, signed A. Rhomberg.

Some of the lithograph plates with hand-coloring. Seven lithographs, uncolored, depict local ways of fishing.

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | 3951

Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) (1964 edition), | vol. 5, 1993

Subjects

Brazil , Fishes , Ichthyology , Pictorial works

Call Number

QL632.B7 S76 1829

Language

Latin

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.157964
OCLC: 173517364
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q117003963