Friday, July 30, 2010

Strange book of the day

Lots of colourful fish, book published in 1719. You can view it online.

Amplify’d from www.rarebookroom.org

In 100 plates containing 460 brilliantly colored engravings that represent a dazzling multitude of fishes, along with crustaceans, grasshoppers, a dugong, and a mermaid, Louis Renard’s Fishes, crayfishes and crabs, of diverse coloration and extraordinary form displays the most fantastic evocation of exotic aquatic life ever produced.


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