| Comments on the publication |
48 pls. sm. fol. In the copy in the Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist,, the 30-page introduction is politico-historical in nature and contains no reference to fishes. Next there are two pages of text descriptive of the 48 plates. These were designed in China, and finely engraved in Paris by one who signs himself "Martinet Fils." The plates in this copy have been colored by hand in magnificent fashion. The names are in both Chinese and French. _.. , Credited by the catalogue of the British Museum (Natural History) to E.L.B. de Sauvigny and so entered in this Bibliography (vol. II, p. 394). However, according to both Engelmann and Sherborn, the editor and describer was Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny [Sauvigny]. Further, according to the Catalogue of the British Museum (Natural History), these plates were reproduced in Kaiserlich-Franzische Akademische Handlung, Augsburg, 1786, along with certain ones from Willughby's De Historia Piscium, and others from Bloch's Naturalem Historiam Piscium. See also Savigny, M. J. C. L. de. Add. 1780.1 |
