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MARCUS ELIESER BLOCH (1723-1799)
Ichthyologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Berlin: chez l'auteur, 1796. 6 vols 8° (210 x 126mm). Half-titles, 216 hand-coloured engraved plates, text for some plates printed in red. (Without half-title to vol. II, light spotting to half-title and title of vol. IV.) Contemporary speckled calf, gilt rule border to covers, red and black morocco labels to spines, yellow edges (corners very lightly bumped, head- and tail-caps and joints rubbed, black morocco volume labels missing from vols II and IV). Provenance: Emily, Countess of Shelburne (book label to each volume).
THE SECOND FRENCH EDITION: A HANDSOME SET, with the plates bound as volumes five and six as published. 'One of the early and fundamental treatises on general ichthyology' (Wood). Bloch was born in Ansbach and studied medicine and the natural sciences; he practiced as a physician in Berlin, and while the Ichthyologie is rightly considered his masterpiece, he also wrote various other important scientific works. Cf. Wood p.244; cf. Nissen ZBI, 416.
Ichthyologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Berlin: chez l'auteur, 1796. 6 vols 8° (210 x 126mm). Half-titles, 216 hand-coloured engraved plates, text for some plates printed in red. (Without half-title to vol. II, light spotting to half-title and title of vol. IV.) Contemporary speckled calf, gilt rule border to covers, red and black morocco labels to spines, yellow edges (corners very lightly bumped, head- and tail-caps and joints rubbed, black morocco volume labels missing from vols II and IV). Provenance: Emily, Countess of Shelburne (book label to each volume).
THE SECOND FRENCH EDITION: A HANDSOME SET, with the plates bound as volumes five and six as published. 'One of the early and fundamental treatises on general ichthyology' (Wood). Bloch was born in Ansbach and studied medicine and the natural sciences; he practiced as a physician in Berlin, and while the Ichthyologie is rightly considered his masterpiece, he also wrote various other important scientific works. Cf. Wood p.244; cf. Nissen ZBI, 416.