AMERICAN FOOD AND GAMES FISHES : A Popular Account of All the Species Found in America North of the Equator, With Keys for Ready Identification, Life Hi

Text/NEW & Bright. First 1969 Dover Edition. Laminated softcover /NF w/light edge & surface wear. Vintage, popular guide to fish life in North America, and, now a primary historica, ecologic l resource to a century past. First published 1905; this is the unbridged, 1969, First Edition, 1st Printing Dover reissue, published w/o ISBN, ISBN subsequently assigned. Author David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), an icthyologist, botanist, First Chancellor of Stanford Univ (1891- 1913), also served as President of Indiana Univ.; Barton Warren Evermann (1853 – 1932), also an icthyologist, was with the US Fish Commission, and taught variously at Indiana Univ, Stanford Univ, Cornell and Yale. 574 pgs, some 330 illustrations support text covering 200 families & 12,000 species of fish. Glossary to rear. Fine copy despite flaws.