L’histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins, avec la vraie peincture & description du Daulphin, & de plusieurs autres de son espece

by Pierre Belon

$75,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Regnaud Chaudiere, 1551. First edition, very rare, of Belon’s first biological work. “In his Histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins 1551 , Belon presented an orderly classification of ‘fish’ that included the sturgeon, the tuna, the malarmat peristedion , the dolphin, and the hippopotamus … Belon can be considered the originator of comparative anatomy. By the same

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