Here's a neat little ebay find:

Bartsch, P., Pirates of the Deep : Stories of the Squid and Octopus.
Smithsonian Institution, 1917, Annual Report, 71 (1) : 347-376, 19 plates.
Extracted from the 1916 Smithsonian Annual Report

these pages are disbound. contain some interesting illustrations. 19 pages i think?


Rarely Seen Squid Octopus Historical Work !!! Item number: 3560852905 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3560852905&category=12569)

Less than $10? That's a bargain. Go for it.

That is right up my street you know! Quite tempting.

you should go for it! heheh i try to limit my ebay per month. i just bought this last week off ebay:

Argonaut carving (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2663180099&category=34081)

that person probably had no idea what an argonaut is.. but hey, it certainly makes for a unique pendant for a ceph fan.

That carving is rather cool. I'm glad to hear that it didn't end up in the hands of one of those ceph-list infidels.