Dr. Tanaka's Japanese Fishes in Life Colours
by Tanaka, Shigeho
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- Hardcover
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Tokyo: Daiomishoin, 1930.
SCARCE GUIDE TO JAPANESE FISHES WITH 355 COLOR IMAGES, TEXT IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH.
4x7 inches volume, flexible leather covers, gilt title to cover and spine in English and Japanese, cloth endpapers, 203 pp, chomolithographs of 355 fish, some with English common names laid in, text in Japanese with index in English and Japanese, very good. 15 copies listed in WorldCat.
SHIGEHO TANAKA (1878–1974) was a Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He published numerous works on fishes and sharks and co-authored a book on Japanese fish with famous American scientist David Starr Jordan.
SCARCE GUIDE TO JAPANESE FISHES WITH 355 COLOR IMAGES, TEXT IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH.
4x7 inches volume, flexible leather covers, gilt title to cover and spine in English and Japanese, cloth endpapers, 203 pp, chomolithographs of 355 fish, some with English common names laid in, text in Japanese with index in English and Japanese, very good. 15 copies listed in WorldCat.
SHIGEHO TANAKA (1878–1974) was a Japanese ichthyologist and professor of zoology at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He published numerous works on fishes and sharks and co-authored a book on Japanese fish with famous American scientist David Starr Jordan.
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- Bookseller
- Biomed Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 607
- Title
- Dr. Tanaka's Japanese Fishes in Life Colours
- Author
- Tanaka, Shigeho
- Format/Binding
- Flexible leather binding
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Daiomishoin
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1930
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- biology; natural history; fish; Japan; plates; color plates; ichthyology
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