> The only sinistral Calliostoma I know of is the C. bigelowi shown on p 38
of
> Abbott & Dance's Compendium of Shells... it is so beautiful!!!  Amazingly
it
> looks just lie the really big regular one on the cover??? ...but then
again
> once you get to the 3rd printing of the book it does mention that the
plate
> is reversed... and is still not corrected by the 5th.
>

Hello, I have read in a book by Stephen Jay Gould an interesting article on
this issue, citing some famous errors. He also affirms that intentional
inverted printing of gasteropods drawings was a common practice until XVIII
century, nobody knows why.

In the same book there is also an article about the Edgar Allan Poe
conchological book, the only one wich he got a second edition during his
life.
The Gould's book is "Dinosaur in a haystack", and no, he doesn't ask me to
sell his books, I just think that some of you may will find it
interesting...

Best regards,

Alfonso Pina
Málaga, Spain
www.eumed.net/malakos