Purpura anglicana
Subtitle: being a discovery of a shell=fish found on the shores of the Severn in which there is a vein containing a juice giving the delicate and durable tincture of the antient, rich, Tyrian purple, of which it is an undoubted species, the knowledge of which hath been lost for many ages : with experimental observations upon it and figures of the shells
By: by W.C.
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed by Joseph Streater
Published: 1689
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Thais (Mollusks); Muricidae
Notes: "First printed at Oxford, in the year 1686, in a large Philosophical transaction, no. 178, now re-printed alone at the desire and for the conveniency of many who are not disposed to buy the book."

Wing C5044