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John Mawe's Sea Shells

CD of 38 high quality digital scans of antique prints

 

Incredibly detailed scans of all the prints in John Mawe's best work on sea shells - one of the earliest works on conchology. Look fantastic when printed and framed and placed in your bathroom

 

Page down to see a selection of the prints, the contents list and to read about their history


$59.99 - order #CD005

To order, press the order link in the menu at the top of this page

Includes a bonus of a wonderful screen saver of the prints

 

To buy the original antique prints click here

 

Benefits

  • Save money - print accurate copies of beautiful antique prints for a fraction of their cost

  • Study them before investing in the original prints

  • Illustrate educational projects

  • Use them to create art, greeting cards, calendars, postcards and posters, computer wallpaper and clip art

  • Enjoy the screensaver of the prints

Features

  • Scans are of the original antique prints

  • Scans are exactly same dimensions as original antique print

  • Scans are saved as bitmap files (.bmp) so all detail is retained (unlike jpg files)

  • Each image file is several megabytes large! Prints were scanned at 300dpi and saved at 150dpi (similar to the resolution of most digital photos)

  • Print direct from the CD or from programs such as Microsoft Picture It, Adobe Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint, Macromedia Fireworks and Paint Shop Pro

 

 

 

Examples of the antique prints on the CD

These are small images for display on this web page. The scans on the CD are much bigger (same size as original antique print) and far higher quality
Antique print picture of sea shells Antique print picture of sea shells Antique print picture of sea shells

Antique print picture of sea shells
Antique print picture of sea shells
Antique print picture of sea shells

Contents of the CD

 

This CD features scans of all 38 hand colored lithographs from the first edition of one of the oldest works about shells by John Mawe who was a famous conchologist.

 

Whilst shell collecting was popular in those days, relatively few prints illustrating shells in color were ever produced. Considering that pictures of shells are popular to this day, it is no surprise that antique prints of shells are scarce, in great demand and likely to become even more valuable.

 

The prints were published in London in 1823, and the scans were made from the original antique prints. These original prints were in very good condition with no foxing. There was an occasional small faint mark near the edge of the paper on a one or two of the prints.

 

Each print measured approximately 8.25 by 5 inches(21 cm by 13cm).

 

The original antique prints may be purchased by clicking here

 

Can't find the shell you are looking for?

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