Box crabs, floral egg crab and hermit crabs

Box crab, Calappa hepatica 1, giant box crab, Calappa calappa 2, floral egg crab, Atergatis floridus 3, Diogenes hermit crab, Diogenes pugilator 4, 5, and soldier crab, Pagurus bernhardus 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andreas Hoffer after an illustration by Christian Leinberger from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg

Andreas Auserlesenes Blusse Brachyurus Cancer Christoph Conchology Crab Curiosities Deliciae Diogenes Floridus Hepatica Hermit Herpetology Hoffer Kabinet Knorr Leinberger Macrourus Mineralogy Naturae Naturalien-cabinet Natuu Natuur Oder Pagurus Selectae Specimens Trew Wunderkammer Zeldzaamheden Zoological

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