Holbrook's Ichthyology (1860)
John Edwards Holbrook. Ichthyology of South Carolina. Charleston, 1860.
In 1818, after he had received his medical degree, John Holbrook (1796-1871) traveled to Europe where the intensity of natural science studies affected him profoundly. Soon after his return to medical practice in Charleston, South Carolina, he undertook the writing of a systematic study of reptiles in the United States. By 1842, he had published Herpetology of the United States and started a companion volume on fishes. Holbrook concentrated on fishes of the South, and the volume on South Carolina, exhibited here, represents the first part of a larger work that was interrupted by the Civil War.