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Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:00:07 +0000

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Conchology

Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History

Julia Blakely

National Museum of Natural History

Shell Books

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&#160; As a commemoration of the Imperial collection of shells in Vienna, the printed folio of Testacea Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis of 1780, is splendid. The eighteen engraved plates, carefully colored <a href="https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2018/08/15/an-imaginative-world-found-in-a-shell-book/#more-'" class="more-link">more &#187;</a>

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