![RENARD, Louis (1678/79-1746). Poissons Ecrevisses et Crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l'on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les Cotes des Terres Australes. Amsterdam: Renard, [1718 or 1719].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2002/NYR/2002_NYR_01083_0210_000(043419).jpg?w=1)
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RENARD, Louis (1678/79-1746). Poissons Ecrevisses et Crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l'on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les Cotes des Terres Australes. Amsterdam: Renard, [1718 or 1719].
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RENARD, Louis (1678/79-1746). Poissons Ecrevisses et Crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l'on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les Cotes des Terres Australes. Amsterdam: Renard, [1718 or 1719].
2 volumes in one, 2o (405 x 260 mm). 100 engraved hand-colored plates (including one double-page) after Samuel Fallours and others (minor foxing to a few plates). 18th-century sprinkled calf (rebacked, upper joint cracked). Provenance: V. K. Hazlett (ownership inscription).
FIRST EDITION. A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK ON FISH AND CRABS OF THE EAST INDIES. Fallours is acknowledged as the artist of the illustrations in the second volume, but is also responsible for some of the illustrations in the first volume. At the time of publication the illustrations in the work were viewed as fable and fantasy products. Although some of the illustrations are exaggerated, all of them seem to be based on nature. Landwehr 158; Nissen ZBI 3361; Theodre W. Pietsch Fishes Crayfishes and Crabs, Louis Renard's Natural History of the Rarest Curiosities of the Seas of the Indies. Baltimore, 1995. Sabin 69600.
2 volumes in one, 2
FIRST EDITION. A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK ON FISH AND CRABS OF THE EAST INDIES. Fallours is acknowledged as the artist of the illustrations in the second volume, but is also responsible for some of the illustrations in the first volume. At the time of publication the illustrations in the work were viewed as fable and fantasy products. Although some of the illustrations are exaggerated, all of them seem to be based on nature. Landwehr 158; Nissen ZBI 3361; Theodre W. Pietsch Fishes Crayfishes and Crabs, Louis Renard's Natural History of the Rarest Curiosities of the Seas of the Indies. Baltimore, 1995. Sabin 69600.