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22 May 2012
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London, Knightsbridge
The Angling Library of Alan Jarvis
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The Angling Library of Alan Jarvis
Back to auction 20289
RICHARDSON (JOHN)
Icones Piscium or Plates of Rare Fishes, Part I [all published], 5 hand-coloured engraved plates, stitched into printed wrapper, preserved in fold-over cloth case, 4to, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843
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£4,375
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Footnotes
- An extremely fine copy of a very rare work, and the first to specialise on Australian fish. Richardson, best-known as an Arctic explorer, describes twelve fish from the album of James B. Emery, first lieutenant of the Beagle when surveying the west coast of Australia.
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