6099. Wright's "Scandinavian fishes" in the first edition 1836.

SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. (WRIGHT, WILHELM VON. The fishes of Scandinavia painted after living specimens and drawn on stone. Text Bengt Fredrik Fries - Carl Ulrik Ekström - Carl Jacob Sundevall. Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1836-57.) Lacking the printed title as usual.

4th (c. 280x227 mm.). 54 hand-coloured lithographed plates (not complete, lacking the 6 last plates; also lacking plate B and C of the engraved plates of fishing tackles; a few plates with some offsetting from text, plate 49 foxed; text partly foxed, sometimes heavily) .
20th century blue half cloth, gilt title on spine, partly worn, partly loose in binding.

Note! Lacking 8 plates (6 of fishes, 2 of the fishing tackles).

Valley 169-172, 314; Nissen: ZBI 1435; Lindberg, Swedish books, 62.
The first fascicule was published May 1836 and the work was published in 10 fascicles until 1857. The plates were finely colored by hand after living specimens, and also supervised by Wilhem von Wright himself.
With the 44-page appendix on fishing tackles in Scandinavia (Description of fishing tackle used in Scandinavia with figures), and the Latin text.

Collation: (upper yellow wrapper to a fascicule dated 1838 placed as title, printed title missing as usual). (1), II-IV (Introduction), (1), 2-206, (2), 57-92 (Latin text), (2), 3-44 (fishing-tackle), (2) pp.