Symbolae Physicae Seu Icones Et Descriptiones Piscium Qui Ex Itinere Per Africam Borealem Et

by Wilhelm Friedrich Hemrich Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

$850 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Berlin: ex Officina Academia, 1828. Folio, printed gray paper-covered portfolio with blues ties; 10 colored lithographic plates; upper tie shortened and frayed; plates near fine. One in a series of at least 10 portfolios depicting the natural history North-East Africa and the Red Sea Basin others include insects, animals, botany, birds, etc. . In this portfolio of fish we have10 plates depicting 26 aquatic specimens, including sharks, rays, and a beautiful

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