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    Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (8" x 13") bound in recent full calf with five raised bands, gilt-lettered spine label, and some blind tooling. Two parts in one volume: (16), 583, (25); (12), 242, (10) pages. Titles with woodcut device, each part with privilege leaf and woodcut portrait of the author, woodcut initials, ornaments and over 400 woodcut illustrations of fish and other forms of aquatic life throughout. Adams R 746 & 757; Casey Wood, 541: "this famous grandfather of modern ichthyology"; Garrison-Morton 282; Nissen 3474; Norman 1848: "The work is especially valuable for its accurate treatment of Mediterranean species, and for providing what are apparently the first zoological accounts of the manatee and the sperm whale." The most important treatise on aquatic animals and fish published up that time. Based largely on classical authorities, in particular Aristotle, it also includes results of the author's own observations through experiments and anatomical investigations. It remained the standard reference work in ichthyology for over a century. Woodcut of fish on page 238 of first part pasted over with another woodcut, Y4 in first part and g2 & n3 in second all slightly defective at fore-edge (repaired with loss of a few letters, some supplied in manuscript), H1 of second part defective at foot (no loss) and H6 (final leaf) stained at edges and defective (no loss, laid down), small ink monogram stamped on verso of first title, very light water-staining to upper half, otherwise very clean. A Near Fine copy of this scarce title with wonderful woodcuts.

  • WILLUGHBY, Francis (1635-1672) - RAY, John (1627-1705).

    Published by Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1686 [but 1743]., 1743

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    Folio (14 2/8 x 9 4/8 inches). Publisher's engraved vignette on title-page. Additional engraved title-page by Paul van Somer, 187 fine engraved plates by Richard Hunt, including 14 with letterpress captions laid-down as issued, engraved vignette head-pieces and initials (some minor worming, not affecting the images). Contemporary speckled calf, the spine in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands, morocco lettering-piece in one, the others decorated with small gilt tools (joints cracked, extremities a bit scuffed). Provenance: early annotations to captions; 19th-century printed paper lot number (355) at the foot of the spine. Second edition, a re-issue of the sheets of the 1686 first edition with the 'Index Piscium' added at the end, and printed identification slips pasted onto some of the plates. This copy retains the original 1686 title-page, more usually replaced by one dated 1743. Willughby met John Ray, his lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1653, they became lifelong friends collaborators in a number of natural history projects, including a plan ". to reduce the several Tribes of Things to a Method; and to give accurate Descriptions of the several Species, from a strict View of them. And forasmuch as Mr. Willughby's Genius lay chiefly to animals, therefore he undertook the Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Insects, as Mr. Ray did the Vegetables". (Derham, Remains, 48). Sadly Willughby died in 1672, and Ray undertook to publish what he could of Willughby's incomplete history of animals. The "Ornithology" was published first in 1676, followed by this the "Historia Piscium" in 1786. Financed by the Royal Society, with assistance from John Fell, bishop of Oxford , the Society's celebrated President, Samuel Pepys, underwrote 79 of the engraved plates, and other Society members sponsored the remaining plates. Despite its importance and sumptuous production, the work was slow to sell. Royal Society members therefore received part of their salaries in copies of the book, and the Society authorised this re-issue in 1740 (published in 1743). The "History of insects" was the last of Willughby's works to be published, although Ray did not live to see this project through. It was published in 1710 as "Historia insectorum" on behalf of the Royal Society, edited by William Derham. Keynes, Ray 46-47; Nissen ZBI 4417 (calling for 188 plates); Wing W-2879.

  • Seller image for Libri de Piscibus Marinis, in quibus verae Piscium effigies expressae sunt. Quae in tota Piscium historia contineantur, indicat Elenchus pagina nona et decima. for sale by Altstadt Antiquariat M. Weiers

    Rondelet, Guillaume:

    Published by Lyon, Matthias Bonhomme,, 1554

    Language: Latin

    Seller: Altstadt Antiquariat M. Weiers, Freiburg, Germany

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    Condition: Gut. Band 1 (von 2). 8 Bl., 583 S., 12 Bl., mit Mit Holzschnitt-Druckermarke auf dem Titel, Holzschnittportrait, zahlreichen Holzschnitt-Initialen und 260 Textholzschnitten. Adams R-746. Nissen ZBI 3474. Nissen, Fischbücher 105. Baudrier, Bibl. Lyonn. X,239-41.- Band 1 von 2 Bänden. - Erste Ausgabe der damals bedeutendsten Abhandlung über Wassertiere und Fische. Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566), Anatom und Naturforscher, stützt sich weitgehend auf klassische Autoritäten, vor allem auf Aristoteles, fügte jedoch seine eigenen anatomischen und experimentellen Ergebnisse hinzu, die er sich auf Reisen ans Mittelmeer und an den Atlantik erworben hatte. Sein umfangreiches Werk über Meerestiere beschrieb weit mehr Arten als jede frühere Beschreibung auf diesem Gebiet. Deshalb galt sein Werk für ein Jahrhundert als wichtiges Standardwerk und wird als der Beginn der wissenschaftlichen Ichthyologie angesehen. Die Illustrationen zeigen Fische, Muscheln, Krebstiere, Schildkröten, Meeressäugetiere (Robben, Delfine, Wale, Orcas .) und andere Meerestiere.- Kleiner Wappenstempel auf dem Titelblatt. Neue Vorsatzpapiere. - Dieses Exemplar hat offenbar mit seinem wichtigsten Element, dem Wasser, stärkeren Kontakt bekommen, da durchgehend, teils starke, Feuchtigkeitsspuren vorhanden sind. Das Papier ist größtenteils ganz oder partiell gebräunt. Das Titelblatt und die ersten Seiten mit hinterlegten, kleinen Fehlstellen. Das seltene Werk in einem attraktiven, neueren Handeinband. - Weitere Fotos gerne auf Anfrage. L la Gewicht in Gramm: 2240 35 x 23,5 cm. Dunkelroter Ganzlederband mit Deckelblindprägung, Titelvergoldung und Rückenschild, Goldschnitt.

  • Seller image for Libri de Piscibus Marinis, in quibus verae Piscium effigies expressae sunt. Quae in tota Piscium, historia contineantur, indicae Elenchus pagina nona decima. Postremò accesserunt Indices necessarij. 2) Universae aquatilium Historiae pars altera, cum veris ipsorum Imaginibus. His acceßerunt Indices neceßarii. for sale by Rainer Kurz - Antiquariat in Oberaudorf

    2 Bände. C.a. 33,5 x 21 cm. (16) S., (24) Seiten Register, 583 Seiten; (10) S., 242 S., (10) Seiten Register. Mit Druckermarke, Porträt und 470 Holzschnitten . Späterer Ganzpergamentbände. Erste Ausgabe. Nissen Fischbücher 83; Brunet IV, 1372. Text in Latein. Vorsätze erneuert. In Band 2 wurde ein Blatt mit dem sich aus Band 1 wiederholenden Porträt nicht miteingebunden (liegt als Farbkopie bei). Teils von alter Hand mit Tinte ergänzte französische Namen der abgebildeten Tiere. Band 1 anfangs leicht wasserfleckig. Jedoch insgesamt von guter Erhaltung. Rondelet (1507-1566, französischer Arzt und Naturforscher) lehrte an der Medizinischen Fakultät von Montpellier. Ab 1540 Leibarzt des Kardinals von Tournon, in dessen Begleitung bereiste er Holland und Italien. Seine Beobachtungen an der Atlantik-, Mittelmeer- und Adriaküste wurden Grundlage für seine Beschreibungen der Meerestiere. Rondelet verdankt seinen Ruhm dieser enzyklopädischen Abhandlung, die mehr als ein Jahrhundert lang das Referenzwerk für ichthyologische Studien und für alle Arten von Meereslebewesen blieb. In seinem Buch beschreibt er detailliert fast 250 Arten von Meerestieren. Reich illustriertes Werk mit Fischen, Muscheln, Schalentieren, Schildkröten, Meeressäuger (Robben, Delfine, Wale) und anderen Meerestieren. Sprache: latein.

  • Seller image for De Historia Piscium Libri Quatour, Jussu & Sumptibus Sociatatis Regiae Londinensis editi. . Totum Opus. Recognovit, Coaptavit, Supplevit, Librum etiam primum & secundum integros adjecit Johannes Raius e Societate Regia. - [THE FIRST LARGE ENGLISH WORK ON ICHTHYOLOGY] for sale by Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF

    Oxford, Sheldonian, 1686. Folio. Recent full calf with 6 raised bands, ruled and blind-stamped in antique style, morocco label. (8),343,30,(1),(11) pp. Engraved allegorical frontispiece dated 1685, 188 copper engraved plates. Slight browning and small stain at the top. Three plates with a minor tear. First edition of the first large English work on ichtyology. The work was a collaboration between Willughby and John Ray, and includes essays on the definition of fish, on their anatomy, and on theory physiology. The work devides fish according into the Aristotelean categories of Cetacei, Cartilaginei, and Spinosi, and includes a description of the reproductive organs and a rejection of the theory of reproduction through spontaneous generation. (Norman Sale 872). The plates were engraved by Poul van Sommers. Wood p.629. Nissen 4417. Wing W-2879.