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Kämmerer, Christoph Ludwig, Beer, Georg Emanuel [Bearb.], Friedrich Karl [Bearb.] · 1789 · 11 pictures

A late eighteenth-century German natural history work on shells, compiled by Christoph Ludwig Kämmerer and reworked by later editors, published in 1789 and held by Heidelberg University Library. Its hand-coloured plates show numbered shells drawn singly against pale grey-beige ground with soft cast shadows. A designer might take the simple, scientific specimen layout and the muted watercolour palette of ochre, cream and slate for vintage botanical-style graphics.

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