Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Willem van de Velde the Younger, Willem van de Velde the Elder and Ludolf Bakhuizen. The kraken, the great sea serpent, the mermaid and the giant squid examined by the naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium - which reports were squid, which were oarfish, and which were nothing at all. This edition is bound with 60 plates of painting, among them works by Aivazovsky, Turner and Redon, and 44 restored and coloured illustrations.