Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis augustissimi peracto
collegit et pingendos curavit Dr. J.B. de Spix, Quondam Ordinis Regii Coronæ Civilis Bavaricæ Eques, Academiæ Scientiarum Bavaricæ Socius Ordinarius, Musei Regii zoologici, zootomici et ethnographici Conservator rel. ; digessit, descripsit et observationibus anatomicis illustravit Dr. L. Agassiz ; praefatus est et edidit itineris socius Dr. F.C. Ph. de Martius
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Half title: Selecta genera et species piscium brasiliensium
Selecta genera believed to have been issued in two parts: pages 1-82 and the first 48 plates, in 1829, the remainder in 1831.
Frontispiece portrait of Spix, signed H. Rhomberg; [84] colored lithographs (plates numbers VIII, XIII, XXIV, L, LVI and LXIX have two or more plates), preceded by 7 black/white lithographs depicting Indian ways of fishing, and 6 plates (1 double)"anatomes."
Reproduction of the original from Oliveira Lima Library, The Catholic University of America.