Martin Lister and His Remarkable Daughters - The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century

Historiæ Conchyliorum, assembled between 1685 and 1692, is the first comprehensive study of conchology ,consisting of more than one thousand copperplates of shells and mollusks collected from around the world. Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters reconstructs the creation of this masterwork, presenting original drawings, engraved copperplates, draft prints, and photographs of the finished books.