Description: SCALLOP SHELL HISTORY. 'The Scallop' by Shell Transport And Trading Company, London, UK: 1957 6 Softcovers covering various aspects of the on the scallop shell, as art, history, etc. 1. SHELL: A WORD'S PEDIGREE By B. Woledge & THE LIVING SCALLOP.By W. J. Rees 24 pages, illustrated in color. "The scallop is a mollusc, a member of a very large group of animals which includes the oysters, the whelks, the octopuses and the slugs. Scallop is a general term which can be applied to nearly three hundred different species living in warm and temperate seas the world over." FINE SOFTCOVER. 2. THE BADGE OF ST. JAMES.By Christopher Hobler 20 pages, illustrated in color. "In the middle of the facade, over the door outside, la Peregrina is represented again, in stone, between two male figures. Both have the same big hats and are liberally bedecked with scallop shells. They are St. James the Greater and St. Roch." FINE SOFTCOVER. 3. AN EXCURSION INTO THE AMERICAS.By Adrian Digby16 pages, illustrated in color. "While most shells have been used throughout the world either for their intrinsic decorative qualities, for tools, or as raw materials, being cut up and ground down into pleasing shapes in no way connected with their original form. the scallop shell, by its very nature, has but limited utilitarian value. It is generally too thin and brittle to be ground down for use as a tool." FINE SOFTCOVER. 4. THE CRADLE OF VENUS.By James Laver16 pages, illustrated in color. "The Renaissance was a Liberation of Symbols." FINE SOFTCOVER. 5. ESCALLOPS IN ARMORY.By Hon. Sir George Bellows14 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Escallop shells occur in armorial bearings almost contemporaneously with the beginning of heraldry. The earliest known surviving examples appear on seals and in rolls of arms of seen or eight hundred years ago. Since then, down to the present day, they have occupied a consistently prominent place." FINE SOFTCOVER. 6. A SYMBOL IN ANCIENT TIMES.By Sir Mortimer Wheeler16 pages, illustrated in color. "The art of the classical world is strewn with scallop shells." FINE SOFTCOVER. 6 Fine Softcovers as a lot.11"l x 8-1/2"w x 1"dWeight: 1# 8 oz.Media mail Postage Paid in USA
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