The Cabinet of Nature and Philosophy

Excerpt from The Cabinet of Nature and Philosophy: Book the First; The Cabinet of Shells The Drawings in this work represent a Species of each of the Genera of Shells, taken from nature. The work also contains a description of the Class, Orders, Genera, and number of Species enumerated, the Classic and Modern English names, and that of the animals inhabiting shells. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.