Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest New York by J

New York by J

English Books with Coloured Plates

map will look nice once displayed

Carte Generale de l'Afrique

Old prints often display small minor repairs on the back

Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest New York by JPurpura in Phoenicia colligitur Purpurarum genera (Cosmographia Universalis Seashell) Almost certainly one of the earliest available printed images of a seashell anyone could ever hope to acquire. It's difficult to image there are very many other earlier images of seashells which a collector might reasonably hope to encounter. In fact, we'd surmise that it could take quite some time and effort for a collector to find an older image of a seashell, not