Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest map will look nice once

map will look nice once displayed

A fine old print any collector

Old prints often display small minor repairs on the back

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Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest map will look nice oncePurpura 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