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256 - Fishes.- Asia.-ÂBrevoortÂ(James Carson)ÂNotes on some Figures of Japanese Fish taken from recent specimens by the artists of the U.S. Japan Expedition,Â10Âhand-colouredÂlithographÂplates, someÂfoxing and browning to text, Alan John Jarvis bookplate, original cloth, some marking to covers, spine ends worn, [Dean I. p.181], [Washington],Â[1856] § Basilewsky (Stephano) Ichthyographia Chinae Borealis, pp.215-263, extract from 'Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Moscou', 9 chromolithograph plates, later cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, Peking, 1852, bound with another work,Â4toÂ(2)
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Fishes.- Asia.-ÂBrevoortÂ(James Carson)ÂNotes on some Figures of Japanese Fish taken from recent specimens by the artists of the U.S. Japan Expedition,Â10Âhand-colouredÂlithographÂplates, someÂfoxing and browning to text, Alan John Jarvis bookplate, original cloth, some marking to covers, spine ends worn, [Dean I. p.181], [Washington],Â[1856] § Basilewsky (Stephano) Ichthyographia Chinae Borealis, pp.215-263, extract from 'Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Moscou', 9 chromolithograph plates, later cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, Peking, 1852, bound with another work,Â4toÂ(2) ***ÂThe first is an early and scarce American contribution to fishes of Japan. The work was published as vol. 2 of C.Perry's Expedition to Japan.
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