Petri Artedi Philosophia ichthyologica
Subtitle: in qua quicquid fundamenta artis absolvit, characterum scilicet genericorum, differentiarum specificarum, varietatum et nominum theoria rationibus demonstratur et exemplis corrobatur : Ichthologiæ pars II
By: emendata et aucta a Iohanne Iulio Walbaum, M.D. practico Lubecensi, Societatis Berolinensis Naturæ Curiosorum sodali ; cum tabula ænea
Contributors: Walbaum, Johann Julius, 1724-1799; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; Du Verney, M., 1648-1730; Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817
Publisher: Impensis Ant. Ferdin. Roese
Published: 1789
Place of publication: Grypeswaldiæ
Language: lat
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Fishes; Anatomy; Classification
Other titles: Philosophia ichthyologica; Petri Artedi renovati pars I. et II. : i.e. Bibliotheca et philosophia ichthyologica / cura Iohannis Iulii Walbaumii
Work titles: Philosophia ichthyologica
Notes: Second posthumous ed.; includes Lectori by Linnaeus from the first ed.

Woodcut head-pieces.

Observation sur la structure coeur des poissons / par M. Duverny: p. 156-167.

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

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

Errata emendata: p. [197]-[199].

Signatures: pi⁴ A-2B⁴.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 lacking leaf of plate.

SCNHRB c. 1 has written in pencil on t.p.: 153231.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in maroon library buckram, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound with (as somethimes issued?): Ichthyologiae. Pars 1 / emendata et aucta a Iohanne Iulio Walbaum ... Grypeswaldiæ : Impensis Ant. Ferdin. Roese, 1788.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013483045) blind-stamped on added t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [pencilled acc. no.] 172879.

SCNHRB c. 2 has plate tipped-in on last errata leaf.

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine.