Art of Nature: Under the Sea Accessory Pouch


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A generously sized accessory pouch showcasing beautiful vintage illustrations of underwater life. Featuring beautiful images of the undersea world, this accessory pouch is the perfect catchall to store pens, pencils, makeup, earbuds, chargers, and all your essential accessories. GENEROUS SIZE: Sized 8-3/4” x 5-7/8”, this accessory pouch is a perfect size for both travel and everyday life. MADE TO LAST: Includes a cotton blend exterior, nylon interior, and durable zipper with a pull tab that will hold up to daily use. BEAUTIFUL DESIGN: Featuring beautiful full-color illustrations that celebrate the beauty of nature. PERFECT FOR ALL AGES: Ideal for students and adults alike, this accessory pouch is great for all lovers of the sea and nature.




Art of Nature: Under the Sea Weekly Planner Notepad


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Celebrate nature’s beauty with this stunning weekly planner notepad featuring stunning, vintage illustrations of underwater life. ORGANIZE YOUR YEAR: This 8.5” x 11” planner is the perfect size for your workspace, with 52 pages to help you keep track of deadlines, appointments, and reminders for every week of the year. BEAUTIFUL DESIGN: Featuring beautiful full-color illustrations that celebrate the beauty of the sea. PERFECT FOR ALL AGES: Ideal for kids, students, and adults alike, this weekly planner is great for all lovers of the sea and nature.




Ruby Charm Colors Big Book of Color Charts


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222 page, 8.5 x 11", spiral bound and tabbed Artist Edition book dedicated to charting and swatching colored pencils, pastel pencils, watercolor pencils, ink, and markers. Book includes 49 pre-labeled charts (with color names and numbers) of the most popular brands. Book also includes blank charts for additional brands and media, and a large number of original line art illustrations that can be colored. This book was designed and illustrated for the adult coloring market by Susan Carlson (aka Ruby Charm Colors).




Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750


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Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envision the natural world.







The Book of Shells


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Who among us hasn’t marveled at the diversity and beauty of shells? Or picked one up, held it to our ear, and then gazed in wonder at its shape and hue? Many a lifelong shell collector has cut teeth (and toes) on the beaches of the Jersey Shore, the Outer Banks, or the coasts of Sanibel Island. Some have even dived to the depths of the ocean. But most of us are not familiar with the biological origin of shells, their role in explaining evolutionary history, and the incredible variety of forms in which they come. Shells are the external skeletons of mollusks, an ancient and diverse phylum of invertebrates that are in the earliest fossil record of multicellular life over 500 million years ago. There are over 100,000 kinds of recorded mollusks, and some estimate that there are over amillion more that have yet to be discovered. Some breathe air, others live in fresh water, but most live in the ocean. They range in size from a grain of sand to a beach ball and in weight from a few grams to several hundred pounds. And in this lavishly illustrated volume, they finally get their full due. The Book of Shells offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most intriguing mollusk shells, each chosen to convey the range of shapes and sizes that occur across a range of species. Each shell is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the shell’s range, distribution, abundance, habitat, and operculum—the piece that protects the mollusk when it’s in the shell. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each shell and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Matchless Cone, for instance, or Conus cedonulli, was one of the rarest shells collected during the eighteenth century. So much so, in fact, that a specimen in 1796 was sold for more than six times as much as a painting by Vermeer at the same auction. But since the advent of scuba diving, this shell has become far more accessible to collectors—though not without certain risks. Some species of Conus produce venom that has caused more than thirty known human deaths. The Zebra Nerite, the Heart Cockle, the Indian Babylon, the Junonia, the Atlantic Thorny Oyster—shells from habitats spanning the poles and the tropics, from the highest mountains to the ocean’s deepest recesses, are all on display in this definitive work.







Copper and Bronze in Art


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This is a review of 190 years of literature on copper and its alloys. It integrates information on pigments, corrosion and minerals, and discusses environmental conditions, conservation methods, ancient and historical technologies.




Art of Nature: Botanical Sewn Notebook Collection (Set of 3)


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Let the art of nature inspire your writing with this beautiful set of linen-textured notebooks. Each notebook includes sixty-four ruled pages and features a different vintage botanical illustration.