BELON du Mans, Pierre (1517-1564). De aquatalibus, Libri duo. Paris: Charles Estienne, 1553. Oblong 8° (105 x 165mm.). 187 woodcut illustrations. 18th-century mottled calf gilt (later lettering-piece on spine, modern endpapers. Provenance : J.H.C.J. (armorial booklabel); Henry Andrews Ingraham (bookplate). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Belon's work on fish, molluscs and aquatic mammals. It's appearance constituted the greatest single advance in the scientific study and classification of fish since Aristotle. This work, together with those of Belon's contemporaries Rondolet and Salviani, remained standard texts for the study of fish well into the 17th century. Nissen ZBI 302.
BELON du Mans, Pierre (1517-1564). De aquatalibus, Libri duo. Paris: Charles Estienne, 1553. Oblong 8° (105 x 165mm.). 187 woodcut illustrations. 18th-century mottled calf gilt (later lettering-piece on spine, modern endpapers. Provenance : J.H.C.J. (armorial booklabel); Henry Andrews Ingraham (bookplate). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Belon's work on fish, molluscs and aquatic mammals. It's appearance constituted the greatest single advance in the scientific study and classification of fish since Aristotle. This work, together with those of Belon's contemporaries Rondolet and Salviani, remained standard texts for the study of fish well into the 17th century. Nissen ZBI 302.
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