Petri Artedi renovati pars I et II [III-V]
Subtitle: i.e. Bibliotheca et philosophia ichthyologica
By: cura Iohannis Iulii Walbaumii
Contributors: Walbaum, Johann Julius, 1724-1799; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; Duverney, M. (Jacques-François-Marie), 1661-1748; Du Verney, M., 1648-1730; Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817; Clark, Austin Hobart, 1880-1954, former owner; Library of Congress
Publisher: Impensis Ant. Ferdin. Röse
Published: 1788
Place of publication: Grypeswaldiae
Language: lat
Subjects: Fishes; Anatomy; Early works to 1800; Classification; Nomenclature (Popular)
Other titles: Bibliotheca et philosophia ichthyologica
Notes: Separate t.p. with varying title for each of the 5 parts.

Artedi's ichthyological works were also issued in 1738 (edited by Linnaeus) and in 1789 (at Leipzig; edited and adapted by J.G. Schneider).

Each part includes a reprinting of Linné's preface from the first edition.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Observation sur la structure du coeur des poissons, par M. Duverney": Pars 2, p. 156-167.

"Memoire sur la circulation du sang des poissons qui ont des ouïes, par M. Duverney l'ainé": Pars 2, p. 167-183.

"A description of the heart, vessels and circulation of the blood in fishes by Alexander Monro": Pars 2, p. 184-192.

Dean, B. Bibliography of fishes, v. 2, p. 598

Brunet t. 1, column 517

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SCNHRB has three copies (c. 1 is complete; c. 2 and c. 3 are incomplete).

SCNHRB c. 1 has pars 1-5.

SCNHRB c. 1 has pars 1 bound together with pars 2, and pars 4 bound together with pars 5.

SCNHRB c. 1 has stamps: Division of Fishes, U.S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution National Museum; accession no.: 153231.

SCNHRB c. 1 has sections of pars 5 misbound: gathering O (p. 105-108) is inserted between the two preliminary leaves; gathering G (p. 49-56) is inserted following p. 104.

SCNHRB c. 1 has later burgundy buckram library bindings with gilt-lettered spines, gray endpapers, and marbled edges.

SCNHRB c. 2 has pars 1-4, only.

SCNHRB c. 2 has blind-embossed stamp: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; accession no.: 172879.

SCNHRB c. 2 of pars 4 is inscribed at pencil at head of t.p.: Austin Clark.

SCNHRB c. 2 has later brown buckram library bindings with gilt-lettered spines; former call no. on spines: 597.A785.

SCNHRB c. 3 has pars 3-5, only.

SCNHRB c. 3 of pars 3 has bookplate: Library of Congress Smithsonian Deposit; with handwritten markings in red and black pencil in the margins.

SCNHRB c. 3 of pars 3 has black half-leather binding with marbled paper boards, gilt-stamped spine, marbled endpapers, and red edges.

SCNHRB c. 3 of pars 4-5 is bound together, with accession no. 172879 on t.p. of pars 4.

SCNHRB c. 3 of pars 4-5 has a later brown buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine.
Table of contents: title: Pars 1. Bibliotheca ichthyologica, seu, Historia litteraria ichthyologiae. 1788. [6], 230 [i.e. 210] p.; title: pars 2. Philosophia ichthyologica. 1789. [8], 196, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates; title: pars 3. Genera piscium. 1792. [8], 723, [1] p., 3 folded leaves of plates; title: pars 4. Synonymia nominum piscium fere omnium. Editio 2. 1793. [4], 140 p.; title: pars 5. Descriptiones specierum piscium. Editio 2. 1793. [4], 112 p.