Tuesday

The Universal Conchologist, 1789

Basket Cockle (Corbis)


Hand coloured frontispiece bordered in gilt with an unnamed shell


Sun Trochus (Heliotropium)


4 comments:

Anna said...

I love shells, Richard collects them, he has hunderds and hundreds of them...so beuatiful all together in a big showcase!!!

Ps.
Remy has become a father of 17...

Aputsiaq said...

Congratulations with Remy!! And I know about Richard :O) I think it is so wonderful to have that hoppy!

Anna said...

did you see the photo's of his young ones yet?

Aputsiaq said...

No, BUT I will in a moment ;O)