Fishes, Crayfishes and Crabs: Louis Renard's Natural History of the Rarest Curiosities of the Seas of the Indies
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First published in 1719 and exceptional in its day for its 460 brilliantly colored copper engravings, Louis Renard's treatise on the marine life of the East Indies was dismissed in the 19th and 20th centuries because of its apparent embellishment, exaggeration, and even falsification. Ichthyologist Theodore W. Pietsch here reexamines this classic work and its almost surrealistic renderings and discovers a work of considerable scientific and historical...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0801847907
ISBN13:9780801847905
Release Date:December 1995
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:480 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.9" x 9.9" x 12.6"
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