Isbn: 9780500271353 - the shell: five hundred million years of inspired design (4 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good to Worn - Age Marks. H. Landshoff (photography) (illustratore).

Softcover. Condizione: Good. 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. H. Landshoff [Photographs] (illustratore).…

1st soft cover edition. 164 PP with 15 b/w figures and 100 plates (65 in colour). Fp. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 24.7 x 25. The shell in history, shell lore from many cultures, romance of collection, influence of shell forms on art..

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Auf d. Umschlag: Stix-Abbott-Landshoff. - Literaturverz. S. [131 - 134]. Ohne Schutzumschlag.