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Icones piscium, or, Plates of rare fishes
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Title

Icones piscium, or, Plates of rare fishes

Title Variants

Alternative: Australian fish
Alternative: Plates of rare fishes

By

Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 , author

Emery, James Barker 1789?-1889 , illustrator

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, R. & J.E. Taylor, 1843

Notes

On cover: [Part I. Price 10s., Four Coloured Plates.]. Manuscript correction of "Four" to "Five" Coloured Plates.

"First fasciculus - Australian fish"--Page 4.

First separately published work on Australian fishes, featuring fish caught on HMS Beagle.

"Lieut. Emery's drawings."

The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the first fascicle of an intended larger work on Australian fish which was never continued. Folio, with 5 striking original hand colouring plates; 8 pages of the text unopened; some very faint marks, a handsome copy in the original printed paper wrappers, manuscript correction; housed in a clamshell case.

Subjects

Australia , Fishes , Pictorial works , Rare fishes

BHL Collections

BHL Australia
Museums Victoria

Call Number

QL617.7 .R53 1843

Classification

597.0994

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 50530654

 

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