Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest red cross hotel

red cross hotel

map will look nice once displayed

hundreds of small individual buildings

Fair but clean condition- old perforated library stamp at top left corner of map through part of title

Carte Generale de l'Afrique

Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest red cross hotelPurpura in Phoenicia colligitur Purpurarum genera (Cosmographia Universalis Seashell) Almost certainly one of the earliest available printed images of a seashell anyone could ever hope to acquire. It's difficult to image there are very many other earlier images of seashells which a collector might reasonably hope to encounter. In fact, we'd surmise that it could take quite some time and effort for a collector to find an older image of a seashell, not