Antique hand-coloured engraving of a dozen starfish in brown, ochre, cream and grey, of many sizes and shapes, scattered on white.

A single brown starfish with five slender arms, centred on white. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

No. 30 of 248 · The Natural History Series

Great Starfish

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A scatter of starfish in sandy browns, ochres and silvery greys, taken from Albertus Seba's Thesaurus of Natural Curiosities of 1758. Seba, an Amsterdam apothecary, had his great cabinet of shells and sea creatures engraved on copper, and each plate was coloured by hand, one copy at a time. For anyone who loves the sea.

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From the great natural-history books of the 1700s to the 1900s / Great Starfish / Asteroidea / Seba's double-page plates were printed from copper and coloured by hand, one copy at a time. The four volumes of his Thesaurus took more than thirty years to finish. / 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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