This rare book captures the magic of marine life! 🐠 'Various fish from Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires ...' was published in 1719 in Amsterdam by Louis Renard. The book's 460 brilliantly hand-coloured engravings show marine creatures in the East Indies. It's the earliest known book on fish with colour illustrations. The Dutch publisher Louis Renard never left the Netherlands but relied on drawings and information from travellers and natural histor