Book ID: 99075
Fallours, Samuel
Poissons tropicaux des Indes Orientales / Tropical Fishes of of the East Indies / Tropische Fische Ostindiens. 2010. 101 col. pls. 224 p. Hardcover. - In French, with extra booklet in German and French. (33 x 30 cm).
This one of the very early collections of illustrations on the marinefauna of the Indian Ocean, which Fallours brought back home to theNetherlands in 1712. Beautiful, detailed and brilliantly colouredillustrations, which later have been used partly by other authors,e.g. Louis Renard in his 'Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes (1719).