No. 128 of 248 · The Natural History Series
Spiral Shells
Pictures by Albertus Seba
A star of spiral shells, hand-coloured in maroon, gold and soft blue, comes from Albertus Seba's Thesaurus of Natural Curiosities of 1758. Seba was an Amsterdam apothecary who had his great cabinet of shells and sea creatures drawn and engraved, and each shell here grows by the same curve from its smallest whorl to its largest. For someone who loves the sea and the natural world.
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From the great natural-history books of the 1700s to the 1900s / Spiral Shells / Set in a star / A spiral shell grows by adding to its open end, turn after turn, without ever changing its shape: the same curve from the smallest whorl to the largest. / 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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