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.

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