hand-coloured engraving on laid paper bearing a crossed-arrow watermark, the full sheet tipped in red on three sides,
[Lafreri (Antonio)]
Morena, [the Moray Eel],
£240
Rome, , 1554-58.
scarce, from the 16th century ichthyology work, ‘Acquatilium Animalium Historiae’, by Ippolito Salviani, the first published book on fish to be illustrated with engravings rather than woodcuts..
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