L’histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins, avec la vraie peincture & description du Daulphin, & de plusieurs autres de son espece.
Paris: Regnaud Chaudiere, 1551. First edition, very rare, of Belon’s first biological work. “In his Histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins (1551), Belon presented an orderly classification of ‘fish’ that included the sturgeon, the tuna, the malarmat (peristedion), the dolphin, and the hippopotamus … Belon can be considered the originator..... More
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