Title
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
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