Skip to content

Ichthyologia Ohiensis or Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and its Tributary Systems by Rafinesque, Constantine S., Richard Ellsworth Call

by Rafinesque, Constantine S., Richard Ellsworth Call

Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
Ichthyologia Ohiensis or Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and its Tributary Systems by Rafinesque, Constantine S., Richard Ellsworth Call

Ichthyologia Ohiensis or Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and its Tributary Systems

by Rafinesque, Constantine S., Richard Ellsworth Call

  • Used
Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Co., 1899. 8vo (245mm x 165), blue cloth over boards, 175 pp., frontis. No. 134 of 250 copies. A reprint of the original 1820 edition, only ten copies of which were known at the time of publication. Includes "a Sketch of the Life, the Ichthyologic Work, and the Ichthyologic Bibliography of Rafinesque." Rafinesque's pathbreaking work undertook the first exhaustive scientific inquiry into the fish of the Ohio River-covering their characteristics, nomenclature, and even their susceptibility to falling prey to the angler's hook. Rafinesque was born in Constantinople in 1783 and by 1815 had permanently settled in America, where he became professor of natural history at the Transylvana University during the early 1820s. Before dying in poverty in 1840, he produced numerous works on various scientific subjects, making several notable contributions to the field of botany. "No other American naturalist traveled so widely. He met, at one time or another, most of the scientists of note in the United States and was on friendly terms with them. He wrote and published incessantly, as he had done ever since his residence in Sicily. Many of his publications are excessively rare, for his method of publishing was as eccentric and irregular as his other habits. Botany and ichthyology continued to be his chief interests, but he wrote also on banking , economics, the Bible, and other topics, and even produced a few volumes of verse. His descriptions of plants and fishes are often vague or inaccurate, and he had a passion for announcing new species. Behind this passion lay the conviction, expressed more than once in his writings, that 'every variety is a deviation which becomes a species as soon as it is permanent by reproduction. Deviations in essential organs may then gradually become new genera.' He thus had a glimpse, if no more than a glimpse, of the later development of biological thought."-Dictionary of American Biography. CONDITION: Good, rubbed, head of spine chipped, old tape marks at fore-edges of covers, front hinge cracked but holding firm.
  • Bookseller James Arsenault & Company US (US)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Publisher Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Co., 1899

We have 3 copies available starting at NZ$41.71.

No image available

Ichthyologia Ohiensis: Or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and Its Tributary Streams [ 1899 ]

by C. S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9781112352201
ISBN 10
1112352201
Quantity Available
1
Seller
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$41.71

Show Details

Description:
Cornell University Library, 2009-08-10. Paperback. Good.
Item Price
NZ$41.71
Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and Its...
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and Its Tributary Streams

by C S (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9781014553584
ISBN 10
101455358x
Quantity Available
10
Seller
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$29.65

Show Details

Description:
Paperback / softback. New.
Item Price
NZ$29.65
Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and Its...
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the River Ohio and Its Tributary Streams

by C S (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9781014553584
ISBN 10
101455358x
Quantity Available
10
Seller
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
NZ$37.13

Show Details

Description:
Paperback / softback. New.
Item Price
NZ$37.13