Francisci Willughbeii Armig. De historia piscium libri quatuor, jussu & sumptibus Societatis Regiae Londinensis editi. In quibus non tantum de piscibus in genere agitur, sed & species omnes, tum ab aliis traditae, tum novae & nondum editae bene multae, naturae ductum servante methodo dispositae, accurate describuntur. Earumque effigies, quotquot haberi potuere, vel ad vivum delineatae, vel ad optima exemplaria impressa; artifici manu elegantissime in aes incisae, ad descriptiones illustrandas exhibentur. Cum appendice historias & observationes in supplementum operis collatas complectente. Totum opus recognovit, coaptavit, supplevit, librum etiam primum & secundum integros adjecit Johannes Raius e Societate Regia..
Willughby, Francis,1635-1672.
Ray, John,1627-1705
Somer, Paul van,1649-1694,engraver.
Oxonii, : E Theatro Sheldoniano,,
anno Dom. 1686. [i.e. 1743?]
"Appendix ad historiam naturalem piscium" (caption title) has separate pagination and register. "Index piscium in Ithyographia Willughbeiana ... curâ Cromwelli Mortimeri ..." (caption title) has separate register (a-c², signatures in square brackets) and colophon "Londini: prostant venales apud Carolum Davis ... & Thomam Woodward ... Regalis Societatis typographos. M.DCC.XL."
Includes errata leaf and indexes.
Sequences of plates occur printed on rectos and versos both (state 1) or on rectos only (state 2). State 1 plates may include eight blank leaves. The four plates numbered "Appendicis tab. 5[-8]" may have fish identifications provided with pasted-on letterpress-printed slips (state a) or as names engraved in the plates with the images (state b). State b presumably constitutes a separate printing of the plates.
With an additional title page, engraved, "Francisci Willoughby Icthyographia ... Sumptibus Societatis Regalis Londinensis, 1685", signed "Paul van Somer jnuent et fecit Londini". This is often placed as a title page to the plates when they are bound following the text or in a separate volume.
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Keynes
England Oxford.