Fourteen antique engraved starfish in tan, brown, cream and blue-grey, arranged in rows on a white background.

A single tan cushion starfish with beaded orange edges, an antique engraving on white. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

No. 43 of 248 · The Natural History Series

Starfish (Seba)

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Rows of starfish in sandy tans and sea blues, engraved for Albertus Seba's Thesaurus of Natural Curiosities in 1758, with a single cushion star waiting inside. Seba, an Amsterdam apothecary, bought shells, starfish and corals from Dutch East India Company ships as they docked, and had his great cabinet drawn and engraved. For someone who loves the sea.

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On the back

From the great natural-history books of the 1700s to the 1900s / STARFISH / Asteroidea / Albertus Seba's cabinet held thousands of shells, starfish and corals, bought from the ships of the Dutch East India Company as they docked in Amsterdam. / 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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