Author: Cuvier, Georges; Pietsch, Theodore W. (editor).
Title: Historical Portrait of the Progress of Ichthyology, from Its Origins to Our Own Time [Foundations of Natural History].
Description: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP), 1995. 1st ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), tables, figures (including frontispiece), top edge foxed, owner's sticker, protected by removable archival plastic sleeve. 366 pp. A classic French text, here in English translation, that traces the development of the science of the study of fishes (ichthyology). He also outlines a criteria for classification of fishes. (Taken from the first volume of his 22-volume Histoire Naturelle des Poissons.). ISBN: 0801849144

Keywords: history, nature, zoology, marine, fishes, ichthyology, translation 0801849144


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