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Excerpt from Historia Molluscorum Sveciae Terrestrium Et Fluviatilium Breviter Delineata
Animalia illa, qum hodie Mollusca vocantur, diu tissime investigata collecta fuerunt. Scilicet inde a remotissrmm temporibus homines jam animadverte haut, se ex illis utilitatem multifariam capere posse. Ex aliis itaque cibum, ex aliis margaritas aliaque ornamenta, ex aliis denique purpuram sibi pararunt. Quae quidem, ni fallimur, in primis fuerunt caussis illorum investigationis. Postea vero, cum in varieta tem rerum naturalium admirandamfaliquantulum ma gis intenta fuit mens humana, Mollusca testacea, pro.. Pter formas millemodis variantes propter colores nitoremque elegantissimos, Naturae Curiosi! Assidue conquisita asservata fuerunt. Qualicunque vero Collectioni disponendae rcquiritur ordo quidam modus. Sic orta est diu servata Molluscortim Mc thodus ex formis testarum desumta, imma ab ipso immortali nostro euse' adoptata. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
