Ricreatione dell'occhio e della mente nell'osseruation' delle Chiocciole : proposta a' curiosi delle opere della natura

Buonanni, Filippo, 1638-1725, Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner. DSI, Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937- , donor. DSI · 1681 · In Roma : Per il Varese, a spesi di Felice Cesaretti ... · 51 pictures

Ricreatione dell'occhio e della mente is a 1681 Roman book on shells by the Jesuit naturalist Filippo Buonanni, written in Italian for curious amateurs of nature. Its pictures are numbered engravings of individual snail and whelk shells shown in three-quarter view with fine hatched shading, giving a designer clear examples of how natural spiral and ribbed forms can be rendered in line.

Mollusks

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