1789 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Antique Concology Print, Surf Clam Shells Plate 257 Town Plans Plate area: - 9in &

Plate area: - 9in & 2in re-join to bottom to centre of image

that Laroons original set of forty designs commissioned by the entrepreneurial bookseller Pierce Tempest in 1687 was quickly expanded to seventy-four and continued to be reprinted from the same plates until 1821

It was immediately rebuilt

This fine large original antique map a plan of Olympia

In 1754–1755 he published an edition (12 vols) of Swifts works

1789 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Antique Concology Print, Surf Clam Shells Plate 257 Town Plans Plate area: - 9in &Title : Mactre, Mactra Size: 11in x 8in (280mm x 200mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1789 Ref #: 23888 Description: This fine original copper plate engraved antique Conchology or Shell print by Jean Baptiste Lamarck was drawn by Henri Joseph Redoute (1766 1852) younger brother of the famous illustrator P J Redoute engraved by Robert Benard and published in the 1789 edition of Tableau encyclopdique et mthodique des trois rgnes de la