Francisci Willughbeii Armig. De historia piscium libri quatuor, Jussu & sumptibus Societatis Regiæ Londinensis editi. In quibus non tantum de piscibus in genere agitur, sed & species omnes, tum ab aliis traditæ, tum novæ & nondum editæ bene multæ, naturæ ductum servante methodo dispositæ, accurate describuntur. Earumque effigies, quotquot haberi potuere, vel ad vivum delineatæ, vel ad optima exemplaria impressa; artifici manu elegantissime in æs incisæ, 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672.

Royal Society (Great Britain)

Contributor:

Ray, John, 1627-1705.

Somer, Paul van, 1649-1694, engraver.

Royal Society (Great Britain)

Standardized Title:

Historia piscium

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Fishes--Early works to 1800.

Fishes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([10],343,[1]30,[14][12]p.,[209] pages or [187] leaves of plates )

Other Title:

Francisci Willughbeii Armig. De historia piscium libri quatuor,

De historia piscium libri quatuor.

Francisci Willoughby Icthyographia.

Icthyographia.

Place of Publication:

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

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

Summary:

eebo-0021

Notes:

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".

Cited in:

Keynes, 47

English Short Title Catalog, N51867.

OCLC:

508251670