1789 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Antique Concology Print, Terebratula Lamp Shells Plate 240 Greece including David Kindersley

including David Kindersley

the headwaters of the Yenisey

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

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

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1789 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Antique Concology Print, Terebratula Lamp Shells Plate 240 Greece including David KindersleyTitle : 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