Velvet crab, Necora puber 1,3, harbour crab, Liocarcinus depurator 2, Amphithrax aculeatus 4, moon crab, Matuta victor 5, stone crab, Menippe rumphii 6, and sponge crab, Dromia personata 7,8. 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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