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Engraved, Folding, and Coloured
This large folding engraving of a fish skeleton is partially hand-coloured and is the most impressive plate in Bakker’s Osteographia piscium (1822).
An Engraved Title Page
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.
In Boards as Issued
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.…
Original Wrappers Bound In
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…
Three Tropical 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.
Two Tropical Fish
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.
Big to Small, Shark to Seahorse
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.
As Issued in Wrappers
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…
Wrapper and Advertisement
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…
Wrappers of Part I
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)…