Jun 07, 2012 - Sale 2280

Sale 2280 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(FISHES.) Willughby, Francis. De historia piscium libri quatuor. 188 engraved plates, including additional title dated 1685. [8], 343, [1]; 30, [13] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked at an early date, worn, binding broken; scattered foxing, slightly affecting some plates, some plates lightly offset, title soiled, with later owner's signature. Oxford: at the Sheldonian Theater, 1686

Additional Details

first edition, limited to 500 copies. The first major work on ichthyology published in England, completed by John Ray after Willughby's death. Nissen, ZBI 4417.