My BasketTRUMPET, FILEFISH, BLUE RAZOR, TRIGGER print
These beautiful rare plates of Marcus Elieser Bloch’s famous work on fishes, are from the ten volume duodecimo first edition of "Histoire Naturelle des Poissons avec les figures dessinées d'après nature,” published in Paris by René Richard Castel in 1801.
The plates with original handcolouring, are after the eminent French natural history artist, Jacques De Sève, (1742 – 1788), and were finely engraved under his direction.
Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723 – 1799), a Doctor of Medicine, famous naturalist, and one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century, produced what is widely regarded today as the greatest fish book ever printed.
“Marcus Elieser Bloch is to fish what James Audubon is to birds. The Ichtyologie is the most outstanding of all fish books”
S. Peter Dance & Geoffrey N. Swinney Classic Natural History Prints – Fish. London, 1990.
These wonderful small prints look superb framed in sets of two, three or four.
(Ref. Dean Bibl. Of Fishes vol.1, 139; Nissen ZBI, 417)
