Report on the Ichthyology of the seas of China and Japan -- with a new index to names in Richardson's Report on the ichthyology of the seas of China and Japan by Peter Whitehead

Pp. (4), 187-320, (14, new index). Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo.  From the: ‘Report for the Association for the Advancement of Science for 1846.’  This work is a facsimile reprint of a rare work first published in London in 1846 by Richard and John E. Taylor.  It is accompanied by a new index to the 1846 work first published in 1970 by Peter Whitehead.  Together this reprint provides a fundamental source on East Asiatic fishes.  No ownership marks and no signs of use.