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ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTION OF THE TROPICAL FISH
CHAETODON ARGO
BODDAERT, Pieter. Brief ... aan ... Johannes Burmannus ... Behelzende eene Naauwkeurige Beschrijving, en naar het leven vervaardigde Afbeelding, van den Gevlakten Klipvisch, uit de Verzameling van ... Johannes Albertus Schlosser.
Epidtola ad ... Johannem Burmannum, ... De Chaetodonte Argo Descripto atque accuratissima Icone Illustrata ex Museo ... Johannis Alberti Schlosseri.
Amsterdam, Kornelus van Tongerlo, 1770. 4to. With 1 engraved plate, coloured by a contemporary hand. No. II in Boddaert's series of letters on zoology. Modern stiff wrappers.
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Detailed scientific description in Dutch and Latin of the Chaetodon Agro, a tropical fish in the family of the angelfish or butterfly fish, from the collection of Johannes Albertus Schlosser. The original colouring is striking. Boddaert (1730-1796) discusses a new specification for this species of fish. The plate, drawn by G. Dadelbeek and engraved by F. de Bakker shows the fish from the side, with the fore part of a second fish. The half-title and the plate give the number II in Boddaert's series of scientific letters on zoology.
With a few stains and tattered edges in the first and last leaves, affecting only the margins in the plate. Otherwise fine and untrimmed, with the paper still crisp. Nice copy of a rare fish book.
