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Harris’s The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (1898) was not limited to freshwater fishes. This attractive plate illustrates the colourful “California Redfish or Fat-Head” which was caught and painted off Catalina…

This plate shows the now-extinct Michigan Grayling. This fish was once so abundant in Northern Michigan that a town was renamed “Grayling” in its honour, and a commercial train line specialized in bringing folks “up north” to fish for the…

This plate from Harris’s The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (1898) features the Pumpkinseed Sunfish, a fish of personal significance to me. This species was one of the first fish I captured from a local pond and is…

This photo shows the front wrapper from Part 1 of Harris’s The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (1898). The wrappers for the first part were relatively plain, but later parts (such as Part III shown in this exhibition)…

The verso of the front wrapper for Harris’s The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (1898) includes advertisements for the work and testimonials to its cost and quality, presumably to encourage subscribers to continue their…

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…

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.

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.

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…