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A History of the Fishes of the British Islands
by Jonathan Couch
Published in London, 1862-65

Original 160-year-old color wood block engravings with some hand-colored finishing

Sheet size: approximately 6.5 x 9.75 inches.


Jonathan Couch
(1789-1870)
A great deal of Jonathan Couch's varied work was published during his lifetime, but his major work was Fishes of the British Islands, published in four volumes between 1862 and 1865. The great work contained 256 water colours and drawings and is of considerable artistic merit as well as being a major contribution to scientific knowledge.

Offered below are original engravings from the 1860's volumes.
Please click on the image to see an enlarged view of the plate.

File Fish

File Fish

$89.95

Four-horned Trunkfish

Four-horned Trunkfish

$89.95

Longer Sunfish

Longer Sunfish


$89.95

Pennant's Globefish

Pennant's Globefish

$89.95

Scale-Rayed Wrass

Scale-Rayed Wrass

$89.95

Jago's Goldsinny

Jago's Goldsinny

$89.95

Yarrell's Blenny

Yarrell's Blenny

$89.95

Sea Snail

Sea Snail

$89.95

Dealfish

Dealfish

$89.95

Lesser Forkbeard

Lesser Forkbeard

$89.95

Greater Forkbeard

Greater Forkbeard

$89.95

Blennoid Forkbeard

Blennoid Forkbeard

$89.95

Torsk

Torsk

$89.95

Bearded Rockling

Five-Bearded Rockling
Four-Bearded Rockling


$89.95

Rock Goby

Rock Goby

$89.95

Yellow Goby, etc.

Yellow Goby
Little Goby
Two-Spotted Goby

$89.95

Speckled Goby, etc.

Speckled Goby
Transparent Goby
Slender Goby

$89.95

Broad-finned Goby, etc.

Broad-finned Goby
Tail-spotted Goby
One-spotted Goby

$89.95

Three-spined Stickleback, Tinker

Three-spined Stickleback
Tinker


Minnow, Loach, Spined Loach

Minnow
Loach
Spined Loach

$89.95

Mackarel Midge, Thompson's Midge

Mackarel Midge
Thompson's Midge


$89.95

Doubly-spotted Sucker, Cornish Sucker

Doubly-spotted Sucker
Cornish Sucker


$89.95

Connemara Sucker

Connemara Sucker

$89.95

Montegu's Sucker, Network Sucker

Montagu's Sucker—Male
Montagu's Sucker—Female
Network Sucker


$89.95

Ophidium Eel, Muraena

Ophidium Eel
Muraena


$89.95

Sea Lamprey, Lampern, Silver Lamprey

Sea Lamprey
Lampern
Silver Lamprey


$89.95

Planer's Lamprey, Mud Lamprey, Borer, Lancelet

Planer's Lamprey
Mud Lamprey
Borer, Lancelet


$89.95

Drummond's Echiodon
Drummond's Echiodon
$89.95

conger, morris
Conger
Morris
$89.95

Banks's Oarfish
Banks's Oarfish
$89.95

Dublin Eel

Dublin Eel

$89.95

Sharp-nosed Eel

Sharp-nosed Eel

$89.95

Bearded Ophidium

Bearded Ophidium

$89.95

Butterfish

Butterfish

$89.95

Viviparous Blenny

Viviparous Blenny

$89.95

Red Bandfish and Variety

Red Bandfish and Variety

$89.95

Hairtail

Hairtail

$89.95

Ocean Pipefish and Variety

Ocean Pipefish and Variety

$89.95

Greater Pipefish, Broad-nosed Pipefish

Greater Pipefish
Broad-nosed Pipefish


$89.95

Fifteen-spined Sticklefish

Fifteen-spined Stickleback

$89.95

European Halfbeak, Blunt-headed Halfbeak, Skipper

European Halfbeak
Blunt-headed Halfbeak
Skipper


$89.95

Lesser Launce, Larger Launce

Lesser Launce
Larger Launce


$89.95

Short-snouted Launce

Short-snouted Launce

$89.95

 

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