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Nihon suisan dōshokubutsu zushū: Illustrations of Japanese Aquatic Plants and Animals

Nihon suisan dōshokubutsu zushū: Illustrations of Japanese Aquatic Plants and Animals

This is a unique set of books at Humboldt State. It was donated on behalf of a former associate professor of wildlife at Humboldt State, John Hammond Lewis and is comprised mainly of detailed  natural history illustrations. Commissioned in 1931 to commemorate the 50th year of the formation of the Fisheries Society of Japan Illustrations of Japanese Aquatic Plants and Animals is a comprehensive two volume set of native Japanese marine life and plants represented through a series of detailed illustrations by Kumataro Itō. Each volume is composed of full page colored plates each with its own guard sheet and for every plate there is a corresponding left hand page which provides bilingual descriptors of the aquatic life illustrated in Japanese and English. The credited author and illustrator is Japanese artist Kumataro Itō, Japanese: 伊藤熊太郎. 

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