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HOUGHTON, William (1829?-1897). British Fresh-Water Fishes. London: William Mackenzie, [1879]. 2 volumes in one, 2° (375 x 280mm). 41 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations (occasional, mainly marginal spotting or thumb-soiling, small waterstain in lower corner of a few leaves). Contemporary morocco-backed cloth (extremities rubbed, scuffed), t.e.g. FIRST EDITION. Freeman 1782; Nissen Schöne Fischbücher 78 and ZBI 2009.
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