The Shell
Language: English
Published by Thames & Hudson, London, 1978
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Leura Books, Bowral, NSW, AustraliaLeura Books
AbeBooks seller since May 9, 2001
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 13.05
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The text covers: shells and man; shells as an economic factor; a religious symbol; pre-Columbian America; the Middle Ages, St James & the scallop shell; heraldry; the Renaissance; the late Renaissance & the Baroque; Rococo; the emerging science of malacology; the shell in the 20th century. Abbott comments on each species with 'the malacologist's knowledge and devotion combined with impeccable scientific information'. 163 pages. Light foxing to endpapers. Illustrator: H. Landshoff [Photographs]. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Marine Life; ISBN: 0500271356. ISBN/EAN: 9780500271353. Inventory No: 262284.
Seller Inventory # 262284
- Title
- The Shell
- Author
- Hugh and Marguerite Stix and R. tucker Abbott
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson, London
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0500271356
- ISBN 13
- 9780500271353
- Illustrator
- H. Landshoff [Photographs]
- Seller catalogs
- Marine Life
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Bowral, NSW Australia 2576
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