'Sloane's strombus' mb-artist James_Tissot laterally inverted for use with

laterally inverted for use with a vue d'optique viewing box

5th May 1982

showing houses

'St Sebastian'

'Sloane's strombus' mb-artist James_Tissot laterally inverted for use withMarine zoological studies (front and rear views) of the shell Strombus pugilis (here named Strombus sloanii) from the Caribbean and South American coasts. Plate 22 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by R. P. Nodder Tavistock St. London.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a