RAFINESQUE, SAMUEL CONSTANTINE. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or Natural History of the Fishes inhabiting the River Ohio and its tributary streams, preceded by a physical description of the Ohio and its branches. Lexington, Kentucky: printed for the author by W. G. Hunt 1830. 8vo in 4s, 230 x 158 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.), modern buckram-backed boards, uncut, stitch holes, quires A and I-L on laid paper, the rest on wove paper, lacking A1 and L4 comprising the front and back wrappers, light dampstaining and discoloration . FIRST EDITION in book form, (originally published in the "Western Review", vols. I-III, December 1819 - November 1820), describing 111 species of fish, "whereof nine tenths are new and undescribed" (Introduction, p. 5). Rafinesque was "the first writer on American fishes who distinguished with even tolerable accuracy those groups now called genera... His descriptions of the fishes he collected cannot, in many particular cases, be surpassed, and are generally recognizable even among the cyprinoids or minnows, where, on account of their close resemblance to each other, there has always been the most confusion... of seventy-nine genera and one hundred and fifteen species of fishes known as inhabiting the Ohio and its tributaries, twenty-nine genera and thirty-seven species were first described by him..." (Herbert E. Copeland, "A Neglected Naturalist", [ ] 1876, pp. 469-76. Fitzpatrick 337; Grolier/Henderson, p.33; Sabin 67453; Howes R10. Provenance : William Greene Binney, signature on title Arthur Fairfield Gray, bookplate and loosely inserted ms. notes Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).
RAFINESQUE, SAMUEL CONSTANTINE. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or Natural History of the Fishes inhabiting the River Ohio and its tributary streams, preceded by a physical description of the Ohio and its branches. Lexington, Kentucky: printed for the author by W. G. Hunt 1830. 8vo in 4s, 230 x 158 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.), modern buckram-backed boards, uncut, stitch holes, quires A and I-L on laid paper, the rest on wove paper, lacking A1 and L4 comprising the front and back wrappers, light dampstaining and discoloration . FIRST EDITION in book form, (originally published in the "Western Review", vols. I-III, December 1819 - November 1820), describing 111 species of fish, "whereof nine tenths are new and undescribed" (Introduction, p. 5). Rafinesque was "the first writer on American fishes who distinguished with even tolerable accuracy those groups now called genera... His descriptions of the fishes he collected cannot, in many particular cases, be surpassed, and are generally recognizable even among the cyprinoids or minnows, where, on account of their close resemblance to each other, there has always been the most confusion... of seventy-nine genera and one hundred and fifteen species of fishes known as inhabiting the Ohio and its tributaries, twenty-nine genera and thirty-seven species were first described by him..." (Herbert E. Copeland, "A Neglected Naturalist", [ ] 1876, pp. 469-76. Fitzpatrick 337; Grolier/Henderson, p.33; Sabin 67453; Howes R10. Provenance : William Greene Binney, signature on title Arthur Fairfield Gray, bookplate and loosely inserted ms. notes Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955) Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).
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