Seashells

Seashells (Lambis chiragra, Lambis lambis, Lambis truncata sebae) from "D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer" (The Ambonese curiosity cabinet) by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, 1705. Page 109, Plate 35.

Georg Eberhard Rumpf (Rumphius in Latin), 1627-1702, was a merchant for the Dutch East India Company on the island of Ambon, now part of Indonesia. Despite being blind, Rumpf assembled and classified an extraordinary collection of plants and animals using his own system of classification. D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer was published in Amsterdam three years after his death.