Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest Fair but clean condition- old

Fair but clean condition- old perforated library stamp at top left corner of map through part of title

map will look nice once displayed

English Books with Coloured Plates

A fine old print any collector

New York by J

Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest Fair but clean condition- oldPurpura 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