| Ref No | EFP/094/1685/1 |
| Finding Number | A F 094/1685/1 |
| Title | 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 |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1686 |
| Description | Historia piscium; De historia piscium libri quatuor; Francisci Willoughby Icthyographia; Icthyographia; Appendix ad historiam naturalem piscium
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.; 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 final errata leaf and index.; De historia piscium libri quatuor.; Francisci Willoughby Icthyographia.; Icthyographia.; Appendix ad historiam naturalem piscium.; Microfilm.; R7161. |
| Author | Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672; Ray, John, 1627-1705; Somer, Paul van, 1649-1694, engraver |
| Subject | Fishes -- Early works to 1800 |
| Physical Description | [10], 343, [1]; 30, [14] p., [209] pages or [187] leaves of plates ; 2j. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | Latin |
| Publisher | Oxonii : e Theatro Sheldoniano, anno Dom. 1686. |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) |