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Shells - Muscheln - Coquillages - Conchology or the natural history of sea, freshwater, terrestrial and fossil shells [Repro with modern additions]
Argenville, A. J. D. d'; Caprita, V., Willmann, R. & Williams, S.
Published by 1780 [2009], 1780
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Conchology or the natural history of sea, freshwater, terrestrial and fossil shells A famous reproduction of one of the rare hand-coloured issues of that famous work, trilingual (English, Francaise, Deutsch) enriched with a lot of modern information on the shells in science and art of the late 18th century and the scientific imp…ortance of d'Argenville's work till today, with actual nomenclature and a bibliography. 216 pp., 87 col. pls, hc folio.