SMITHS' SEA FISHES (SIGNED & NUMBERED LEATHER-BOUND IN SOUTH AFRICA

SMITH'S SEA FISHES, Number Five (5) of the Collectors Edition of Fifty (5O), leather-bound, first edition, first impression, 1986, J.B.L.Smith Institute of Ichthycology, Grahamstown, gilt edging to pages, illustrated, AS NEW The forerunner of this book was 'Sea Fishes of Southern Africa', first published in 1949. The attractive feature of the low number (5), apart from the unusually low number (5O) in the edition, is that the book (probably) was not offered on public placement, as with later numbers (11-50) of an limited edition                                                                                                         The standard work in encyclopedia format.