Francisci Willughbeii Armig. De historia piscium libri quatuor [electronic resource] : Jussu & sumptibus Societatis Regiae Londinensis editi. In quibus non tantum de piscibus in genere agitur, sed & species omnes, tum ab aliis traditae, tum novae & nondum editae bene multae, naturae ductum servante methodo dispositae, accurate describuntur. Earumque effigies, quotquot haberi potuere, vel ad vivum delineatae, vel ad optima exemplaria impressa; artifici manu elegantissime in aes incisae, ad descriptiones illustrandas exhibentur. Cum appendice historias & observationes in supplementum operis collatas complectente. Totum opus recognovit, coaptavit, supplevit, librum etiam primum & secundum integros adjecit Johannes Raius e Societate Regia.

De historia piscium

Oxonii : E Theatro Sheldoniano, Anno Dom. 1686. [i.e. 1743?]

[10],343,[1];30,[14];[12]p.,[209] pages or [187] leaves of plates ; fol..

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With an additional title page, engraved, "Francisci Willoughby Icthyographia ... Sumptibus Societatis Regalis Londinensis, 1685", signed "Paul van Somer jnuent et fecit Londini". This is often placed as a title page to the plates when they are bound following the text or in a separate volume.

"Appendix ad historiam naturalem piscium" (caption title) has separate pagination and register. "Index piscium in Ithyographia Willughbeiana ... curâ Cromwelli Mortimeri ..." (caption title) has separate register (a-c², signatures in square brackets) and colophon "Londini: prostant venales apud Carolum Davis ... & Thomam Woodward ... Regalis Societatis typographos. M.DCC.XL."

Sequences of plates occur printed on rectos and versos both (state 1) or on rectos only (state 2). State 1 plates may include eight blank leaves. The four plates numbered "Appendicis tab. 5[-8]" may have fish identifications provided with pasted-on letterpress-printed slips (state a) or as names engraved in the plates with the images (state b). State b presumably constitutes a separate printing of the plates.

Includes errata leaf and indexes.

Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.

Match to this record all copies lacking the 1743 cancel title page but including the 1740 index. It is uncertain whether these constitute part of the Royal Society's 1743 reissue (see ESTC N68107), or were made up by individual owners when the new index became available.

Keynes, 47
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), N51867

Great Britain -- England -- London.

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