Snake blenny and sand-eel

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Snake blenny, donzelle de la mediterranee, Ophidion barbatum, and sandeel, ammodyte appat, Ammodytes tobianus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles" 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by Pretre, engraved by Miss Sixdeniers, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780~1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History.

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