Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest map will look nice once

map will look nice once displayed

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

Carte Generale de l'Afrique

Old prints often display small minor repairs on the back

hundreds of small individual buildings

Seashell very early image!! c.1552 Munster rare map w/ orig. early hand color Cinglais Forest map will look nice oncePurpura 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