Fauna japonica, sive, Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis, superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830
By: collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold, conjunctis studiis C.J. Temminck et H. Schlegel pro vertebratis, atque W. de Haan pro invertebratis elaborata
Series: Museum of Comparative Zoology--Biodiversity Heritage Library digitization project
Publisher: Apud Auctorem
Published: 1833
Place of publication: Lugduni Batavorum
Language: fre; lat
Subjects: Zoology
Other titles: Fauna japonica; Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis, superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830
Notes: Issued in parts.

Title-pages are engraved and lack vol. designations and individual vol. titles; t.p. of v. [3] has imprint: Amstedolami : Apud J. Müller, 1833; t.p. of v. [2], [4] and [5] has imprint: Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Arnz et socios, 1850.

Plates in v. [1] and [3] are uncolored (except for 1 folded plate in v. [3], which is a col. map); all plates in v. [2] and [4] are colored; some plates in v. [5] are colored.

Vol. [1] in 4 pts.: Coup-d'oeil sur la faune des îles de la Sonde et de l'empire du Japon : discours préliminaire destiné à servir d'introduction à la faune du Japon / C.J. Temminck [nov. 1835]; Expositio dispositionis circularis crustaceorum [unfinished]; Commentatio physico-historica de crustaceis japonicis / [Ph. Fr. von Siebold]. [Apr. 1850]; Crustacea / elaborante W. de Haan. Vol. [2] has half-title p. (with title: Pisces).

Vol. [3] has on half-title p.: Fauna japonica, auctore Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Reptilia, elaborantibus C.J. Temminck et H. Schlegel. 1838; caption title (on p. [i]): Préface, suivie d'un aperçu historique et physique sur les reptiles du Japon. Vol. [4] has caption title (on p. [1]): Description des oiseaux observés au Japon par les voyageurs hollandais. Vol. [5] in 2 pts.: Aperçu général et spécifique sur les mammifères qui habitent le Japon et les îles qui en dépendent / par C.J. Temminck. [1842-1845] (59 p., plates 1-20). Les mammifères marins. [1844] (26 p., plates 21-30)

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BM(NH) cat., p. 1923.

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Vol. [1] in Latin, v. [2]-[5] in French.

Sherborn, C.D. and F.A. Jentink. On the dates of the parts of Siebold's Fauna japonica... In Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1895, p. 149-150.
Table of contents: title: v. [1]. [Introductions and Crustacea]. [1833-1850] (xxx, xvii, xxxi, 243 p., [64] leaves of plates); title: v. [2]. Pisces. [1842]-1850 (323 p., [160] leaves of plates); title: v. [3]. Reptilia. 1838 (xxi, 144 p., [28] leaves of plates (4 folded); title: v. [4]. [Aves]. [1844]-1850. (141 p., [120] leaves of plates); title: v. [5]. [Mammalia]. [1842-1845] (59, 26 p., 30 leaves of plates)