A rare and unusually finely illustrated monograph on the fishes of Vietnam
Chevey, P.
Iconographie ichtyologique de l'Indochine: Poissons des campagnes du "de Lanessan" (1925-1929). 1re partie.
Published
1925
Item ID
16588
€650.00
Saigon, Institut Océanographique de l'Indochine, 1932. 4to (31.5 x 25.2 cm). 155 pp., 50 brightly coloured plates, some augmented with silver. Original printed wrappers.
A rare, large, and important monograph on the fishes of Vietnam describing 33 marine and 17 freshwater species. The fine plates are after watercolours by Luu-Khac-Khiem. A repair to the spine edges, otherwise a very good clean copy. Not in Nissen, (nor in Dean's "Bibliography of fishes"; concluded in 1915).