A.D. Férussac and G.P. Deshayes | Histoire...des mollusques, terrestres et fluviatiles. Paris, 1820-51, 4 volumes, folio

A.D. Férussac and G.P. Deshayes

Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des mollusques, terrestres et fluviatiles. Paris: J. B. Baillière, 1820-1851

LARGE PAPER COPY, 4 volumes, folio (425 x 292mm.), 247 engraved plates, most printed in colour and finished by hand, twentieth-century brown half morocco A. Fournier of Paris, marbled boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, some foxing to text and plates, extremities slightly rubbed

A large paper copy of one of the rarest and most beautiful conchological works. It is also the last and one of the finest examples of French colour-printing by Langlois, the printer responsible for some of Redouté's finest work. "Posterity is grateful to Férussac for some of the most beautiful and accurate coloured figures of non-marine molluscs ever published" (Dance p. 91). 

LITERATURE:

B.M.N.H. II, 569; Dance, p. 91; Nissen ZBI 1348.