Martini Lister ... Historiæ animalium Angliæ, tres tractatus. Unus de araneis. Alter de cochleis tum terrestribus, tum fluviatilibus. Tertius de cochleis marinis. Quibus adjectus est quartus de lapidibus ejusdem insulæ ad cochlearum quandam imaginem figuratis
Martin Lister's 1678 London natural history of English animals, a Latin treatise on spiders, land and freshwater snails, and marine shells, printed for the Royal Society. Its pictures are fine engraved studies of single shells seen from several angles, with a designer able to draw on their hatched shading and whorled contours for organic line work.










