This is the second volume in a series of selections of natural history prints from around the world, featuring rare plates which illustrate fish in their remarkable diversity of size, shape and colour. It includes a substantial collection of pictures from books of coloured plates of fish published between 1791 and 1910, many of them now much sought-after collectors' items. Some of the illustrations are fanciful and almost comically exotic and others are notable for their scientific accuracy and meticulous observation. The author has written many books and articles, both scientific and popular, on natural history topics.
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Höhe: 356 mm
Breite: 254 mm
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978-1-85585-070-5 (9781855850705)
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Two exotic fish; six exotic fish; spotlight parrotfish; flying gurnard and other fish; shrimpfish, lionfish and frogfish; moorish idol and two other exotic fish; mirror carp; sargassum frogfish; chimaera; flying gurnard; old wife; dragonet and opah; two surgeonfish; two frogfish; clown anemonefish and squirrelfish; two butterflyfish and smallhead; flying fish; man-eating piranha; rock bass and yellow perch; lionfish; blue-spotted ribbontail ray; four sea bass; scorpionfish and turkeyfish; squirrelfish; sea dragon; brown ray; great trevally and yellowtail rockcod; crested oarfish; false jacopever; atlantic salmon; brown trout; brown trout varieties; boarfish and golden butterflyfish; batfish; ornate wrasse and rosy soldierfish; green razorfish; three freshwater stingrays; great white shark and six-gilled shark; blue shark and bramble shark; three wrasses; three pufferfish and a porcupinefish; brindled grouper; bullethead parrotfish; emperor angelfish; vermilion seabass; dusky parrotfish; leopard moray eel; rippled triggerfish; atlantic Spanish mackerel; red snapper, artic grayling; goldfish, pike; sturgeon; lampreys; lumpsucker; cuckoo wrasse and corkwing wrasse; Tanganyika catfish; trunkfishes; three deep-sea fish.
