Painted crab of Ambon, Maluku, Cancer pictus 1, flattened crab, Plagusia depressa 2, Risso's crab, Xantho poressa 3, unknown species, Cancer nodulosus 4, Dorippoides facchino 5, and stalkeye porter crab, Ethusa mascarone 6,7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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