[xiv], 860, ii pp., 61 b/w plates, 133 text figs, 135 tables, Roy. 8vo, well bound in recent blue buckram, leather title-piece to spine. Light cockling to the upper margin of some pages. Text English. Vg. From the library of Prof. J. Green (1928-2016) with his name to endpaper. Scarce. A major work. Includes a historical overview of ichthyological literature concerned with the freshwater fishes of Japan. [40443]