AUTHOR: Artedi, Peter (1705-1735) TITLE-PAGE TRANSCRIPTION: PETRI ARTEDI | SYNONYMIA PISCIUM | GRAECA ET LATINA | EMENDATA, AUCTA ATQUE ILLUSTRATA. | [rule 65 mm.] | SIVE | HISTORIA PISCIUM | NATURALIS ET LITERARIA | AB | ARISTOTELIS USQUE AEVO AD SECULUM XIII DEDUCTA | DUCE | SYNONYMIA PISCIUM | PETRI ARTEDI. | [rule 88 mm.] | ACCEDIT | DISPUTATIO DE VETERUM SCRIPTORUM HIPPOPOTAMO. | CUM TABULIS IN AERE EXPRESSIS III. | [rule 72 mm.] | AUCTORE | IOH. GOTTL. SCHNEIDER, | ELOQUENT. ET. PHILOLOG. PROFESSORE. | [double rule 125 mm.] | LIPSIAE | IMPENSIS OFFICINAE LIBRARIAE WEIDMANNIANAE | MDCCLXXXIX. COLLATION: 4º, 27 x 22 cm.: p4 A-2Y4 [$3 signed] pp. [i]-viii, [1]-352, [8] CONTENTS: p. [i]. Title page. p. [iii]. Dedication. p. [v]. Ad lectorem aequum et doctum. p. 1. Text. p. 321. Addenda ad synonymiam. p. 334. Interpretatio figurarum in aeneis tabulis expressarum. p. 343. Observationes criticae. p. 351. Erratorum index. p. 353. Index nominum et rerum. ILLUSTRATIONS: Engraved plates opposite p. [360], Capieux. sculps. 1789. Plate I-II. Figurae octo Echeneidis Naucratus Caput. Plate III. Hippopotamum ex monumentis antiquis quatuor expressum sistit. BINDING: Brown leather half-binding, brown paper marbled boards, brown speckled ends. NOTES: A revised and enlarged edition of part 4 of Artedi’s Ichthyologia, Lugduni Batavorum, 1738. “This seems to be an important part from the Bibliotheca Ichthyologica and forms the first great bibliography of fishes, but includes also a description of the Hippopotamus.” — Dieter Schierenberg catalogue 73 REFERENCES: Dean v. 2 p. 598. PROVENANCE: Hon. John Davis. Boston Society of Natural History. KEYWORDS: 1. Fishes. 2. Hippopotamus. I. Schneider, Johann Gottlob (1750-1822) LOCATION: QL615.A74 1789 OTHER CALIFORNIA LOCATIONS: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library