Record Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX : jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis augustissimi peracto / collegit et pingendos curavit Dr. J.B. de Spix ; digessit, descripsit et observationibus anatomicis illustravit Dr. L. Agassiz, praefatus est et edidit itineris socius dr. F.C. Ph. de Martius | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution

Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX : jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis augustissimi peracto / collegit et pingendos curavit Dr. J.B. de Spix ; digessit, descripsit et observationibus anatomicis illustravit Dr. L. Agassiz, praefatus est et edidit itineris socius dr. F.C. Ph. de Martius

Writer of preface:: Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von 1794-1868 Search this

Physical description:: [6], ii, [2], xvi, 6, 138 pages, [97] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, portrait ; 36 cm

Notes:: Selecta genera was issued in two parts: pages 1-82 and the first 48 plates, in 1829, the remainder in 1831.; Frontispiece portrait of Spix, signed A. Rhomberg.; Some of the lithograph plates with hand-coloring. Seven lithographs, uncolored, depict local ways of fishing.; Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 3951; Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) (1964 edition), vol. 5, 1993; Also available online.; SCNHRB copy (39088002038271) has bookplate of the Library of Congress.; SCNHRB copy has faint Smithsonian Institution property stamp on title page, with accession no. 97074.; SCNHRB copy in quarter modern binding of blue goatskin and paste-paper boards, title in gilt on spine.; Elecresource