A TREASURY OF NEW ZEALAND FISHES. By David H. Graham F.R.M.S., F.Z.S.

1953 1st edition. 4to (190 x 251mm). Pp404. B/w photographs and illustrations. Dark green cloth, upper board and spine titled in pale green.

Descriptions of the common New Zealand species together with much anecdote and reminiscence of encounters with the various species described, angling and otherwise. Much more readable than most icthyology books". In this book I have endeavoured to write for a wide public - for boys and girls at school; for the sport fisherman, the commercial fisherman; for the man who wants to know 'What fish have I caught?'; for overseas visitors; for my Maori friends; for schoolteachers; for training college students and lecturers; for the university student; for all those who wish to learn how fish behave in captivity, and how they act in the sea, in river, and in harbour - in other words, the domestic affairs of native fishes. ...To observe and record the habits of many of our New Zealand fishes in captivity has been my good fortune, and whole this book does not include all New Zealand species of fish, it does bring the reader my personal observations of the more common ones and others likely to be met with. While conscious that this book does not give the complete habits of every fish described, I offer the reader the results of over half a lifetime's observations of the fascinating day-to-day happenings in the lives of our fishes".