Lot 46
Fishes.- Asia.- Brevoort (James Carson) Notes on some Figures of Japanese Fish taken from recent specimens by the artists of the U.S. Japan Expedition, [Washington], [1856]; and another Asia & fish (2)
Hammer Price: £100
Description
Fishes.- Asia.- Brevoort (James Carson) Notes on some Figures of Japanese Fish taken from recent specimens by the artists of the U.S. Japan Expedition, 10 hand-coloured lithograph plates, some foxing and browning to text, Alan John Jarvis bookplate, original cloth, some marking to covers, spine ends worn, [Dean I. p.181], [Washington], [1856] § Basilewsky (Stephano) Ichthyographia Chinae Borealis, pp.215-263, extract from 'Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Moscou', 9 chromolithograph plates, later cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, Peking, 1852, bound with another work, 4to (2)
⁂ The first is an early and scarce American contribution to fishes of Japan. The work was published as vol. 2 of C.Perry's Expedition to Japan.
Description
Fishes.- Asia.- Brevoort (James Carson) Notes on some Figures of Japanese Fish taken from recent specimens by the artists of the U.S. Japan Expedition, 10 hand-coloured lithograph plates, some foxing and browning to text, Alan John Jarvis bookplate, original cloth, some marking to covers, spine ends worn, [Dean I. p.181], [Washington], [1856] § Basilewsky (Stephano) Ichthyographia Chinae Borealis, pp.215-263, extract from 'Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Moscou', 9 chromolithograph plates, later cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, Peking, 1852, bound with another work, 4to (2)
⁂ The first is an early and scarce American contribution to fishes of Japan. The work was published as vol. 2 of C.Perry's Expedition to Japan.
