No. 22 of 248 · The Natural History Series
Cone Shells (Seba)
Pictures by Albertus Seba
Dozens of hand-coloured cone shells spiral into a rosette in this plate from Albertus Seba's Thesaurus of Natural Curiosities of 1758. Seba, an Amsterdam apothecary, had his great cabinet of shells and sea creatures drawn and engraved, and cone shells were the jewels of such collections. For a beachcomber, a collector or anyone who loves the sea.
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From the great natural-history books of the 1700s to the 1900s / CONE SHELLS / Set in a rosette / Cone shells were the jewels of every cabinet of curiosities. The snails that make them hunt fish with a tiny poisoned harpoon. / Thesaurus of Natural Curiosities, vol. 3, 1758 / Albertus Seba, an Amsterdam apothecary, had his great cabinet of shells and sea creatures drawn and engraved.
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