Testaceo-Theologia, oder Gründlicher Beweis des Daseyns und der vollkommnesten Eigenschaften eines Göttlichen Wesens, aus natürlicher und geistlicher Betrachtung der Schnecken und Muschelen, zur gebuhrenden Verherrlichung des grossen Gottes 142 text-figures (line-drawings)

142 text-figures (line-drawings)

Publisher Apud Ludovicum Billaine Publisher Place Parisiis Date Published 1776 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Very good Condition Description Old repairs to the outer margins of the half-title and title pages with no effect to the text

with 48 hand-colored plates

including species ‘discovery’

Neat underlining on 17 pages

Testaceo-Theologia, oder Gründlicher Beweis des Daseyns und der vollkommnesten Eigenschaften eines Göttlichen Wesens, aus natürlicher und geistlicher Betrachtung der Schnecken und Muschelen, zur gebuhrenden Verherrlichung des grossen Gottes 142 text-figures (line-drawings)Pp. (vi), 984, (lxxx Register); frontispiece portrait in fine facsimile, 22 engraved plates with 157 numbered figures of shells. Original one half brown calf leather, spine with four raised bands lettered in gilt on morocco title label in one compartment, over sprinkled paper boards, page edges with sprinkle decorations, thick 8vo (175 x 115 mm). Presents an early account of shells in art, medicine, commerce and their use as a currency. This volume