Seashells.  Woodblock illustrations of shell and coral specimens from Yochiro Hirase’s work “Kai Senshu” (The Illustrations of a Thousand Shells). Published in Kyoto, Japan by Yamada Naozōburō in 1914-1915. In Japanese.

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