📚 Fishes

The oldest vertebrates: ichthyology, the fisheries science, and the aquarium wonder of the half of them that have common names.

Below are the 28 works carrying the subject fishes in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Harvest of the Sea: A Contribution to the Natural and Economic History of the British Food ..	James Glass Bertram	1865	22
	COD; A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD	Mark Kurlansky	1997	18
	Fishing	H. Cholmondeley-Pennell	1885	17
	Fishes	Herbert S. Zim	1955	16
	The rod in India	Henry Sullivan Thomas	1881	15
	Fishes of the world	Joseph S. Nelson	1976	14
	Exotic aquarium fishes	William T. Innes	1935	12
	Encyclopedia of aquarium & pond fish	David Alderton	2005	10
	Ichthyology	Karl Frank Lagler	1962	9
	River monsters	Jeremy Wade	2011	9
	Breeding aquarium fishes	Herbert R. Axelrod	1967	7
	Plenty of Fish	Millicent E. Selsam	1960	6
	Think of an eel	Karen Wallace	1993	6
	What a Fish Knows	Jonathan Balcombe	2016	6
	Eyewitness Handbook - Aquarium Fish	Dick Mills	1993	5
	What's it like to be a fish?	Wendy Pfeffer	1996	5
	Fish disease	Edward J. Noga	2010	5
	World Without Fish	Mark Kurlansky	2011	5
	Lady with a spear	Eugenie Clark	1951	4
	Fish and fisheries of India	V. G. Jhingran	1975	4
	Freshwater Fish and Fishing	Jim Arnosky	1982	4
	Complete Book of the Marine Aquarium	Vincent B. Hargreaves	2001	4
	Ocean Anatomy	Julia Rothman	2020	4
	Bond's Biology of Fishes	Michael Barton	2006	3
	Discus	Tony Silva	1980	2
	Freshwater fishes of Peninsular Malaysia	A. K. Mohammad Mohsin	1983	2
	About Fish	Cathryn P. Sill	2002	2
	Taksonomi dan kuntji identifikasi ikan	Hasanuddin Saanin	1968	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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