1789 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Antique Concology Print, Terebratula Lamp Shells Plate 240 Greece Plate area: - None

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The printing and publishing of these important etchings was entrusted to Giacomo de Rossi (1626-1691)

view of the city of Mbanza Loango in the pre-colonial African Kingdom of Loango - now part of the of western part of the Republic of the Congo - by Jakob van Schley in 1755 - after Olfert Dapper - was published in Antoine François Prevosts 15 volumes of Histoire Generale des Voyages written by Prevost & other authors between 1746-1789

or hitherto but imperfectly known

1789 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Antique Concology Print, Terebratula Lamp Shells Plate 240 Greece Plate area: - NoneTitle : Terebratule, Terebratula Size: 11in x 8in (280mm x 200mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1789 Ref #: 23871 Description: This fine original copper plate engraved antique Conchology or Shell print by Jean Baptiste Lamarck was drawn by Henri Joseph Redoute (1766 1852) younger brother of the famous illustrator P J Redoute engraved by Robert Benard and published in the 1789 edition of Tableau encyclopdique et mthodique des trois rgnes de la