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The Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago
The Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago
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Heading: (Ichthyology)
Author: Weber, Max [Carl Wilhelm] and L.F. De Beaufort
Title: The Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago of P. Bleeker
Place Published: Leiden
Publisher:E.J. Brill
Date Published: 1911-16
Description:


3 volumes. xi, [1], 410; xx, 404; xv, [1], 455 pp. Frontispiece portrait of P. Bleeker and Melchior Treub (in Vols. I & II respectively) with 365 illustrations in text. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. First Editions.



The first three volumes of the definitive text on fish in the Indo-Australian Archipelago, a series that would grow to 11 volumes spanning the years 1911-62. Volume I contains a detailed index of the Ichtyological Papers of Pieter Bleeker, a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist who was famous for the Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises, his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia published between 1862 and 1877. The present works by Weber and Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort furthered his research.

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Scuffing and soil to cloth, some light fraying to spine ends and corners; a few cracked hinges, leaves somewhat toned, bindings slightly shaken; about very good.
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