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This plate from my fragmentary copy of Renard’s Poissons [1754] illustrates three species of tropical fish from the Indonesian archipelago.

The nineteenth century ushered in an explosion of technical works on the anatomy of fish. Works on comparative anatomy were popular, as were detailed works on single species of fish. Bakker’s contribution to the anatomy of fish, Osteographia…

This large folding engraving of a fish skeleton is partially hand-coloured and is the most impressive plate in Bakker’s Osteographia piscium (1822).

Despite being a book of a very technical nature, the text volume of Bakker’s Osteographia piscium (1822) includes an attractive engraved vignette on the title page.

It was not uncommon for technical works such as Bakker’s Osteographia piscium (1822) to be issued with a large atlas of plates and a small volume of explanatory text. Over time, it is not uncommon for plate and text volumes to become separated.…

Sagra’s Historia fisica, politica y natural de la isla de Cuba was a monumental work issued in parts over more than 20 years. Complete copies of the entire work are rare, and the original parts in their wrappers are uncommon. Thus, I was very…

The plates in Sagra’s Peces [1853] are magnificently coloured, and the fish seem ready to swim off the page. Three species of Cuban fish are illustrated here.

The plates in Sagra’s Peces [1853] are magnificently coloured, and the fish seem ready to swim off the page. Two species of Cuban fish are illustrated here, including the charismatic Flying Fish.

The plates in Sagra’s Peces [1853] are magnificently coloured, and the fish seem ready to swim off the page. Three species of Cuban fish are illustrated here, including a large shark and a diminutive seahorse.

William Harris’s The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (1898) was a monumental undertaking. Harris reported traveling nearly 30,000 miles across North America with artist John L. Petrie, capturing and painting the “true…