Fishes, Crayfishes and Crabs: Louis Renard's Natural History of the Rarest Curiosities of the Seas of the Indies

by Louis Renard

First published in 1719 and exceptional in its day for its 460 brilliantly colored copper engravings, Louis Renard's treatise on the marine life of the East Indies was dismissed in the 19th and 20th centuries because of its apparent embellishment, exaggeration, and even falsification. Ichthyologist Theodore W. Pietsch here reexamines this classic work and its almost surrealistic renderings and discovers a work of considerable scientific and historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801847907
• ISBN13: 9780801847905
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 9.9" x 12.6"