Kupfer zu Dr. Bloch’s oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlandes
| Author | BLOCH, Marcus Elieser (1723-1799) |
| Typographer | Hr. Hesse a spese dell’autore |
| Place and date of printing | Berlin, 1784 |
| Price | 10500 € |
Oblong folio; cont. quater claf, red morocco lettering piece on spine (corners and spine rubbed, joints week); engr. title-page (D. Berger sc. 1784) and 108 engr. plates in superb contemporary hand colouring. A fine, spotless copy.
FIRST EDITION of the Atlas meant to accompany the three volumes text on German fishes published by Bloch between 1782 and 1784, beeing the first part of the Allgemeine Geschichte der Fische, which appare in 15 volumes during 13 years (1782-1795).
The undertaking was financed mainly by the author and achieved with the help of various German princes and patrons. It is by far one of the finest and most important ichthyological work of the 18th century.
C. Nissen, Schöne Fischbücher, Stuttgart, 1951, no. 23. C. Nissen, Die zoologische Buchillustration, Stuttgart, 1969, no. 415.
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