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- The fishes of India being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon By Francis Day .
The fishes of India being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon By Francis Day .
Object Details
- Notes
- Issued in parts, beginning in 1875. See Nat. Hist. Mus. (London) online catalog, and Nissen, for details
- Paged continuously. Collation: v. 1. [2], 320, xii p., plates 1-LXVII, plus plates LIA-LIC; v. 2. [2], xx, 321-778 p., plates LXIX-CXCV
- Plates illustrated by G.H. Ford and C. Achilles; lithographed by C.L. Griesbach, F. Day, C. Achilles, J.R. King, R. Mintern, and Suzini [or Susimi or Susini]; and printed by Mintern Bros
- Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, I, 1054
- Also available online.
- Also available online
- SCNHRB copy (v.1, 39088004612149; v. 2, 39088004612156) has stamps on t.p.'s: Library, United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Mar. 3, 1882; accession no. (both v.): 124796; Division of Fishes, U.S. National Museum.
- SCNHRB copy has pencil markings and brief annotations throughout, in an unknown hand.
- SCNHRB copy of v. 1 has brown buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and marbled edges; v. 2 has orange buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and marbled edges.
- Elecresource
- SCNHRB copy (v.1, 39088004612149; v. 2, 39088004612156) has stamps on t.p.'s: Library, United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Mar. 3, 1882; accession no. (both v.): 124796; Division of Fishes, U.S. National Museum
- SCNHRB copy has pencil markings and brief annotations throughout, in an unknown hand
- SCNHRB copy of v. 1 has brown buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and marbled edges; v. 2 has orange buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and marbled edges
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Date
- 1876
- 1878
- Call number
- QL634.I5 D31
- QL634.I5 D31
- author
- Day, Francis 1829-1889
- illustrator
- Achilles, C. active 1878
- Ford, G. H (George Henry) 1809-1876
- Griesbach, Carl Ludolph 1847-1907
- lithographer
- King, J. R. active 1875-1878
- Mintern, R.,
- Suzini
- printer of plates
- Mintern Bros.,
- Type
- Electronic resources
- Physical description
- 2 volume, CXCV [id est 198] leaves of plates illustrations 32 cm
- Place
- India
- Indian Ocean
- Title
- Natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon
- Topic
- Fishes
- Record ID
- siris_sil_278448
- Usage
- CC0
