354 results filtered with: Fishes
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The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
Date: [approximately 1824?]- Pictures
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Porcupinefishes: top, Plumier's diodon; centre, the mole diodon; bottom, the bottle fish. Coloured etching by J. Pass after M.E. Bloch, 1803.
Bloch, Marcus Elieser, 1723-1799.Date: 25 March 1803Reference: 578670i- Pictures
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A fallow deer, perch and four wading or water birds. Wood engraving by M. U. Sears, 18--.
Reference: 42370i- Books
A history of the fishes of the British Islands / by Jonathan Couch.
Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870.Date: 1862-1865- Books
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Les poissons, les reptiles et les oiseaux / par Louis Figuier. Ouvrage illustrée de 400 figures insérées dans le texte et de 24 grandes compositions par A. Mesnel, A. de Neuville et E. Riou.
Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894.Date: 1868- Pictures
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A bird of prey carrying off a fish. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 26949i- Pictures
Fish. Watercolour by Bhawani Das, 1777/1783.
Das, Bhawani.Date: 1777-1783Reference: 566704i- Pictures
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A society lunch with patrons playing dice, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by R. Leitner, mid-19th century, after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 25445i- Books
Pavli Iovii Novocomensis medici De romanis piscibus libellus / Doctus, copiosus & elegans, iam recens aeditus.
Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.Date: 1528- Journals
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Copeia
Date: 1913-- Pictures
Fishing: a net at a weir, perhaps on the Seine, plan, and details. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 493386i- Pictures
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Fish, eels, shellfish and crustaceans (22 different varieties), lying dead on a table and in baskets. Etching, by G. Van der Gucht after P.A. Rysbrack, 1750/1770.
Rysbrack, Pieter Andreas, 1690-1748.Date: [1750/1770?]Reference: 581047i- Pictures
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Fisher-folk and their methods of working close to the shore. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 492388i- Ephemera
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The wonder of the sea! : The Gymnetrus Northumbricus, or sea-serpent, caught on the Northumbrian Coast, March 26th, 1849 ... is now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.
Date: [approximately 1850?]- Pictures
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A type of cod. Etching.
Reference: 42319i- Pictures
A fish, with red and green head, tail and fins, and with blue and yellow scales. Watercolour by W. Deane, 1967.
Deane, Winifred, active approximately 1966-1967.Date: 12.1.67 [12 January 1967]Reference: 2924556iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A dissection of a female ray or skate. Etching.
Reference: 42331i- Books
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The British angler: or, a pocket-companion for gentlemen-fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling: Comprehending all that is Curious and Useful in the Knowledge of that Polite Diversion. As: I. An Introduction; containing an Encomium on Rivers and the Art of Angling, with general Observations on the Nature of Fish. II. The Angler's Apparatus: Or, Directions concerning Rods, Lines, Hooks, Floats, and the rest of the Tackle: Also, of Baits, Natural and Artificial. III. An exact Description of the several Kinds of Fish that are found in the Rivers, and on the Sea-Coasts of Great Britain; their Size, Shape, Qualities, Seasons, Feeding, Haunts, &c. IV. The whole Practice of Angling: Teaching the Choice and Preparation of proper Stands; the Method of Taking every Species, more particularly the sportive Trout, the voracious Pike, and other Capital Game. With Descriptions of our principal Rivers, Observations relating to the Weather, and other necessary Remarks. Together with Supplemental Discourses, 1. On Fish-Ponds and Reservatories. 2. On the Laws against Poachers, and in Favour of the Fair Angler. Also, Excellent Receipts for Dressing of Fish, and a Complete Index, in which the Terms in Use among Anglers are occasionally explained. Embellished with copper-plates Curiously Engraved. The Whole compiled from approved authors, and above thirty years experience, by John Williamson, Gent. Who has added a Verification of the principal Heads, at the End of each Chapter, for the Help of Memory.
Williamson, John, angler.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Pictures
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A rural surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Etching by A.T.J.M. Potémont after D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 22596i- Books
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Natural history of British fishes : their structure, economic uses and capture by net and rod, cultivation of fish-ponds, fish suited for acclimatisation, artificial breeding of salmon / by Frank Buckland.
Buckland, Francis T. (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880.Date: [pref. 1880]- Pictures
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The incarnations of Vishnu. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 27724i- Books
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An introduction to the study of fishes / by Albert C.L.G. Gunther.
Date: 1880- Pictures
Fish. Watercolour by Bhawani Das, 1777/1783.
Das, Bhawani.Date: 1777-1783Reference: 566631i- Books
A bibliography of fishes / by Bashford Dean.
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928.Date: 1916-1923- Pictures
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Tobias under the guidance of the archangel Raphael, cures Tobit's blindness using a 'fish-gall'. Etching by A. de Marcenay de Ghuy, 1755, after Rembrandt.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: 1755Reference: 16389i