Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa
Subtitle: Pisces : consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836 : fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa"
By: by Andrew Smith, M.D., deputy inspector general of army hospitals, director of the expedition
Contributors: Great Britain. Treasury; Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa; Day & Haghe
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Smith, Elder and Company
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Zoology; Fishes
Other titles: Pisces; Fishes of South Africa
Notes: Printer from title page verso.

Volume 4 of the 5 v. edition of 1838-1850, originally issued in 28 parts; cf. Wood. The other volumes contain 1. Mammalia; 2. Aves; 3. Reptilia; and 5. Invertebrata.

Each plate has [2]-p. letterpress description, with some variation. Some plates signed "Day & Haghe, lith. to the Queen."

Published under the authority of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.