Fantastical fish, some real, some imaginary. Taken from Louis Renard’s work “Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l’on trouve autour des isles Moluques et sur les côtes des terres Australes: peints d’après nature …” The first edition came out in 1718 and 1719. These are taken from the second edition, published in Amsterdam in 1754.

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PoissonsecrevisIRena_0021
Page 21. Collections of and digitalized by the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. In the public domain. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/200575#page/21/mode/1up
PoissonsecrevisIRena_0025
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PoissonsecrevisIRena_0023
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PoissonsecrevisIRena_0027
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