European perch, Perca fluviatilis 107, lamprey eel, Lampetra fluviatilis 111, mullet, Mugil cephalus 109, critically endangered European eel, Anguilla anguilla 110 and John Dory, Zeus faber 108. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1808.

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