Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis augustissimi peracto / collegit et pingendos curavit Dr. J.B. de Spix, Quondam Ordinis Regii Coronæ Civilis Bavaricæ Eques, Academiæ Scientiarum Bavaricæ Socius Ordinarius, Musei Regii zoologici, zootomici et ethnographici Conservator rel. ; digessit, descripsit et observationibus anatomicis illustravit Dr. L. Agassiz ; praefatus est et edidit itineris socius Dr. F.C. Ph. de Martius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spix, Johann Baptist von, 1781-1826, author.

Contributor:

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873, illustrator.

Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von, 1794-1868, writer of preface.

Series:

Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs.

Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ichthyology.

Fishes--Brazil.

Fishes.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 unnumbered pages, xvi, ii, 6, 138 pages, 98 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait.

Manufacture:

Monachii [Munich] : Typis C. Wolf, 1829.

Other Title:

Half title: Selecta genera et species piscium brasiliensium

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1829]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Selecta genera believed to have been issued in two parts: pages 1-82 and the first 48 plates, in 1829, the remainder in 1831.

Frontispiece portrait of Spix, signed H. Rhomberg; [84] colored lithographs (plates numbers VIII, XIII, XXIV, L, LVI and LXIX have two or more plates), preceded by 7 black/white lithographs depicting Indian ways of fishing, and 6 plates (1 double)"anatomes."

Reproduction of the original from Oliveira Lima Library, The Catholic University of America.

OCLC:

956408736

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.