statement of responsibility: par Marc Eliéser Bloch

Translated by Jean Charles Thiébault de Laveaux from the original German entitled Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische, which was published as follows: Th. 1-3 Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands, 1782-84; Th. 4-12, Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische, 1785-95

Dating of parts: ptie 1 & 2, 1785 -- ptie 3, 1786 -- ptie 4 & 5, 1787 -- ptie 6, 1788 -- ptie 7-12, 1797

Imprint varies. Ptie 4-6 published: A Berlin : Chez l'auteur François de la Garde ; A Paris : Chez Didot le jeune, libraires ; A Londres : Chez White & fils, libraires. Ptie 7-12: A Berlin : Chez l'auteur ; A Leipzic dans la Musée de Mr. Beygang et chez tous les libraires d'Allemande

Engraved title vignettes; most signed F.C.W. Rosenberg, D. Berger fecit

Plates are hand-colored; many with captions in four languages; numbered continuously throughout the parts. Most signed by F.G. or C.L. Schmidt, G. Bodenehr, R.L. Berger and F. Berger, P. Haas, or J.F. Hennig as engravers, after Krüger jun. Patric Plumier, Printz Moritz, J.F. Hennig and others as illustrators. Ptie 1 has 37 plates, ptie 2, 35 plates; each of the other parts has 36 plates

Ptie 6 has bound at end, "Additions aux six parties de cet ouvrage," p. [89]-116

Indexes in French, Latin, Greek, German, etc

Colophons of ptie 1-6: Berlin : De l'Imprimerie de Louis Philippe Wegener. Colophons of ptie 7-12: Berlin : De l'Imprimerie de Godefroy Hayn

citation/reference: Wood, C. Vertebrate zoology, p. 244

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Wood, C. Vertebrate zoology

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SCNHRB copy has bookplate of Library of Congress. Stamped in red on last leaf of each v.: 1 Aug 1858

SCNHRB copy has, in ptie 6, p. 25-6 bound following p. 27-8, both of those leaves bound upside down

SCNHRB copy is complete and bound in 6 v.; half binding in red sheepskin and pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers

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