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A type of fish, possibly a whiting. Etching.

The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...

A type of cod. Etching.

Fish. Watercolour by Bhawani Das, 1777/1783.

A dissection of a male ray or skate. Etching.

Two fish. Watercolour, 1783.

In convalescence Dianabol builds the patient up : the engraver builds his colour picture : bleeding heart tetra.

A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.

Fish. Watercolour by Bhawani Das, 1783.

At the advice of the angel, Tobias carves up the fish to retrieve its medicinal properties. Etching.

A gathering of people in the Balkans selling fish taken in winter sunlight.

A fish being carried off by a bird. Watercolour drawing.

Five fish, including two types of sardine and butter-fish. Etching.

History of the Sternoptixinae, a family of the osseous fishes, and their anatomical peculiarities : with a description of the Sternoptix celebes, a species not hitherto noticed / by P.D. Handyside.

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At the advice of the angel, Tobias carves up the fish to retrieve its medicinal properties. Etching.

A gathering of people in the Balkans selling fish taken in winter sunlight.

A fish being carried off by a bird. Watercolour drawing.

Five fish, including two types of sardine and butter-fish. Etching.

History of the Sternoptixinae, a family of the osseous fishes, and their anatomical peculiarities : with a description of the Sternoptix celebes, a species not hitherto noticed / by P.D. Handyside.