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[BLOCH (MARCUS ELIEZER)] Poissons de l'ouvrage de Bloch corrigés d'apré le texte e disposés selon l'ordre de la zoologie universelle, avec leurs principaux caracteres spécifiques, MANUSCRIPT, "Paris, 1788"
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BLOCH (MARCUS ELIEZER)
Poissons de l'ouvrage de Bloch corrigés d'apré le texte e disposés selon l'ordre de la zoologie universelle, avec leurs principaux caracteres spécifiques, MANUSCRIPT, in ink, containing 207 PAGES OF FINELY EXECUTED WATERCOLOURS OF FISH, the majority single full-page specimens, approximately 20 leaves with 2 specimens per page, a few with additional details also fully coloured, detailed descriptions in French and 5-page index at end, contemporary French mottled sheep, spine tooled in gilt with black morocco lettering label "Poisso[n] de l'oeuvra (sic) de Bloch", rubbed at extremities, folio (385 x 235mm.), Paris, 1788
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A FINE NEAR CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT COPY OF SPECIMENS ILLUSTRATED IN BLOCH'S ICHTHYOLOGIE. The drawings for the book were taken from Bloch's collection of some 1500 fish, the largest collection of its time, which he put together from purchases made at home and from travellers and missionaries returning from all over the world (including Sir William Hamilton in Naples).
