No. 16 of 42 · The Natural History Series
Cone Shells Birthday
Pictures by G. B. Sowerby IIWords by Lovell Reeve
Five patterned cone shells, drawn by G. B. Sowerby II for Lovell Reeve's Conchologia Iconica of 1843, open onto a birthday wish: treasures for a treasure. Reeve set out to picture every shell known, and Sowerby drew each one life size and coloured it by hand. For someone who is a treasure to you.
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Inside, it says
Happy Birthday treasures for a treasure
On the back
From the great natural-history books of the 1700s to the 1900s / CONE SHELLS / Conus / Lovell Reeve set out to picture every shell known. His Conchologia Iconica ran to twenty volumes and more than 2,700 plates. / Conchologia Iconica, 1843 / Lovell Reeve's great atlas of shells; G. B. Sowerby II drew every shell life size, coloured by hand. / NATURAL HISTORY · BIRTHDAY
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