Dr. Tanaka's Japanese Fishes in Life Colours

  • Flexible leather binding
  • Tokyo: Daiomishoin, 1930
By Tanaka, Shigeho
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.

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Title

Dr. Tanaka's Japanese Fishes in Life Colours

Author

Tanaka, Shigeho

Binding

Flexible leather binding

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Daiomishoin: Tokyo

Date

1930


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