Crustaces, Crab. Plate 270. Panckoucke, Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, from Histoire Naturelle, engraved by Deseve circa 1750. £65.00 /$105 Click for info

You know the saying "there are always other fish in the sea"? Well, it's not just fish.

There's all the other cute and decorative beasties - Actinozoa, Argonauts, Hydrozoa, Asteria, Lamellibranchiata, Mollusca, Tellina, Scallop, Mytille, Arcade, Echinodermata, Stellerida, and Ascidians?

"Light as a flake of foam upon the wind,
Keel upward, from the deep emerged a shell,
Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled;
Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose,
And moved at will along the yielding water."
          Montgomery

"Whether on crystal rocks ye rove,
Beneath the bosom of the sea
Wand'ring in many a coral grove."
          Blake

Selected marine animal prints currently in stock

Helminthology, Order of Molluscae or Gelatinous Worms. Copper plate engraving, showing octopus? published as the Act Directs by J.Wilkes, 1808. 21.5 x 27 cm Condition good. £48.00 / $78.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

The Coral-plants. Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, engraved by Warner for Oliver Goldsmith History of Nature, 1740. 8.5 x 13 cm Condition good. £35.00 / $56.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Corallines. Vesiculated, Tubular, Celliferous. Copperplate engraving, hand coloured from Encyclopedia or Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences,by William Henry Hall, engraved by I. Taylor, circa 1789. 20 x 36 cm Condition good. £70.00 / $114.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Corallines Plate 2. Articulated, Keratophita, Eschara. Copperplate engraving, hand coloured from Encyclopedia or Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, by William Henry Hall, engraved by I. Taylor, circa 1789. 20 x 36 cm Condition good. £70.00 / $114.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Corallines. Copperplate engraving, hand coloured, published by S.A.Oddy,1815. 21 x 27 cm Condition good. £40.00 / $65.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Argonaut or Sailing Cuttle Fish.Hand coloured engraving from an Encyclopedia dated circa 1880. 15.5 x 23 cm Condition good. £30.00 / $48.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Hydrozoa, Aurelia, Cestum Veneris and others. Hand coloured engraving from an Encyclopedia circa 1880. 15.5 x 23 cm Good condition £30.00 / $48.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Seegurke. Sea Cucumber.Chromolithograph from Meyers Konversationslexikon band 5, dated circa 1890. 13 x 20 cm Good condition £28.00 / $46.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Hochzeitskleider.Display to attract the opposite sex. Chromolithograph from Meyers Konversationslexicon band 5, dated circa 1890. 12.5 x 20 cm Good condition £28.00 / $46.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Asterias Pl119, Vers Echinodermes, Panckoucke, Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, on handmade untrimmed paper, Histoire Naturelle,engraved by Benard, circa 1750. 36 x 26 cm Condition very good. £120.00 / $194.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

<	Caput Medusa, or Magellanic Star-fish. Copper engraving,hand coloured, engraved by J.Chapman, published as the Act directs by J.Wilkes, 1796. 19 x 25 cm Good condition £50.00 / $81.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Vermes Tubularia Magnificent. Copper engraving, hand coloured, engraved by Milton c1809. 19 x 25 cm Good condition £48.00 / $78.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Vermes Actinia. Copper engraving, hand coloured, engraved by Milton c1811. 19 x 25 cm Good condition £48.00 / $78.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Asteria Pl.122 Panckoucke, Copper plate engraving on hand made paper, hand coloured from Histoire Naturelle, engraved by Benard, circa 1750. 17 x 25 cm Condition good £60.00 / $98.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Sea Urchin,Oursin, Echinus, plate 149. Panckoucke, Copper plate engraving on hand made paper, hand coloured from Histoire Naturelle, engraved by Benard, circa 1750. 18 x 25 cm Condition very good £65.00 / $105.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Sea Urchin,Oursin, Echinus, plate 144. Panckoucke, Copper plate engraving on hand made paper, hand coloured from Histoire Naturelle, engraved by Benard, circa 1750. 18 x 25 cm Condition very good £65.00 / $105.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Asteria Pl.96. Panckoucke, Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, engraved by Benard, circa 1750. 18 x 25 cm Condition good £65.00 / 105.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Sea Trees. Erich Pontoppidan, The Natural History of Norway, Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, printed for A.Linde, 1755. 23 x 15.5 cm . Condition good £78.00 / $126.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Shells Plate II. Copper plate engraving, from an Encyclopedia, published by Alexander Hogg, circa 1780. 22 x 38 cm Condition very good £75.00 / $122.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Trochus LXXX Test. Thomas Pennant, Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, Printed for Benj.White 1777. 13 x 20 cm Condition good £42.00 / $68.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Tellina XLVII Test.Thomas Pennant, Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, Printed for Benj.White 1777. 9.5 x 15.5 cm Condition good £40.00 / $65.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Mactra, Cardium. Thomas Pennant, Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, Printed for Benj.White 1777 11.5 x 19 cm Good condition £36.00 / $58.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Crayfish, Thomas Pennant, Copper plate engraving, hand coloured, Printed for Benj.White 1777. 12 x 19 cm Condition good. £32.00 / $52.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Oysters 184 Panckoucke, Double page, copper plate engraving on hand made uncut paper from Histoire Naturelle, engraved by Benard, circa 1750. 36 x 25 cm, big. Condition excellent £110.00 / $178.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top

Sea Snails. Meeresschnecken. Coloured print from Meyers Konversation Lexicon, Leipzig, 1906. 21 x 14 cm Condition good £28.00 / $46.00 (plus packing and postage) Click for info Back to top