Some of you know that I am an avid collector of aquatic literature; someday, I hope to endow a "collection" in a library that will hopefully allow us to retain some of the aquatic literature that is being lost ...
That said, I have a lot of book dealers that periodically send me notices about recent aquisitions they have run across ... many of which I try to pick up as budgets may allow ...
Today in the mail, I received several that I found humorous enough to share here:
Now here is one that I just want to rush right out and get ...
And often there are once in a lifetime opportunities to grab books that may disappear simply due to a lack of broad enough interest ...
Then sometimes you run into a title that just sounds interesting ... this is one I want to play with ... electricity, water, and fish ... honest, I read about it in a book ...
That said, I have a lot of book dealers that periodically send me notices about recent aquisitions they have run across ... many of which I try to pick up as budgets may allow ...
Today in the mail, I received several that I found humorous enough to share here:
Now here is one that I just want to rush right out and get ...
- Marine Diatoms from the Coasts of Iceland. 394 pages, 1918
And often there are once in a lifetime opportunities to grab books that may disappear simply due to a lack of broad enough interest ...
- Freshwater Fishes of the USSR and Adjacent Countries. Over 1200 text figures and a colored folding map. 8 Volumes.
- Marine Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Mexico. 102 plates (43 colored). 1937
- Relationships of Some Marine ORganisms of the Northeast Pacific to Water Temperatures. 8 volumes. 1961
- Coastal Fishes of Oman. 1153 colored photographs. 1995
- The Fishes of West Virginia. 1995
- The Fishes of Ohio. 1957
Then sometimes you run into a title that just sounds interesting ... this is one I want to play with ... electricity, water, and fish ... honest, I read about it in a book ...
- The Effects of Electric Currents on Fish. 52 text-figures. 1973
