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GOUAN, ANTOINE. Histoire des Poissons, contenant la Description Anatomique de leurs parties externes & internes, & le caractere des divers Genres rangés par Classes & Ordres. French and Latin titles and text. 4 folding engraved plates. xviii, 228 leaves, 229-252, [3] pages. 4to, contemporary red wrappers, partly covered with later buff paper, worn, portion missing from top of backstrip; occasional light marginal dampstaining; uncut. Strasbourg: (Jonas Lorenz for) Amand König, 1770
first edition of a treatise on ichthyological anatomy and taxonomy. Gouan (1733-1821) was one of the first naturalists in France to follow the Linnean system.
