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Dr. Tanaka's Japanese Fishes in Life Colours by Tanaka, Shigeho - 1930

by Tanaka, Shigeho

Dr. Tanaka's Japanese Fishes in Life Colours by Tanaka, Shigeho - 1930

Dr. Tanaka's Japanese Fishes in Life Colours

by Tanaka, Shigeho

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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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  • Date Published 1930
  • Keywords biology; natural history; fish; Japan; plates; color plates; ichthyology
Rural Affairs: A Practical and Copiously Illustrated Register of Rural Economy and Rural Taste,...

Rural Affairs: A Practical and Copiously Illustrated Register of Rural Economy and Rural Taste, Including Country Dwellings, Improving and Planting Grounds, Fruits and Flowers, Domestic Animals, and All Farm and Garden Processes. Vol. VI: Four Hundred an

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Structure of Rich Clusters of Galaxies: Clues to Formation and Origin

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The Boston Almanac for the Year 1860.  Number XXV
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Die Botanische Buchillustration Ihre Geschichte Und Bibliographie, Band I &  Band II

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Maurizio Martino, Mansfield, CT, (1994); First Edition, Limited to 225 copies; Quarto, 11" x 8 3/4" (28.1 cm x 22.2 cm); red buckram; gold titles on a black field. Verbatim facsimile reprint of this scholarly work on botanical illustration first published at Stuttgart in 1951. Two volumes in one, 264 pages and 324 pages respectively, Volume I an exhaustive history of botanical book illustration, and Volume II a detailed bibliographical catalogue of 2,387 illustrated botanical works spanning more than four centuries, arranged in alphabetical order by author. Text in German. A unique and valuable reference. Fine. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.
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Structure of Rich Clusters of Galaxies: Clues to Formation and Origin

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The Boston Almanac for the Year 1860.  Number XXV
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Die Botanische Buchillustration Ihre Geschichte Und Bibliographie, Band I &  Band II

Die Botanische Buchillustration Ihre Geschichte Und Bibliographie, Band I & Band II

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Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. Vol. XVI. Nos. 11-24. 1927-28.

by Alice Eastwood; Frank R. Cole; David D. Keck; M.C. Van Duzee; David Starr Jordan; Barton Warren Evermann; Shigeho Tanaka; et al

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fish brush

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Sogen Sensho 51 (Fish) / 87 (Bird) 2 vols.

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living with snailfish

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by the fish eye

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common sense of fish

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hand drawn fish eye

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Fish Eye

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Japanese Education, July 1923, cover picture Sugiura Hisui

by , Masatane Kanda, Yukichi Daiko, Shigeho Tanaka, Genichi Kato, Yasunori Ueishi , Masami Kihira

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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe

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