FÉRUSSAC “LIMAÇONS” FOLIO SHELL ENGRAVING 1820 – 1851 - FROM ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND RAREST CONCHOLOGY WORKS

This very rare and beautiful folio engraving of “Limaçons” is from Jean, Baptiste Louis d’ Audebard, Baron de Férussac, his son, Andre-Etienne de Férussac, and G. P. Deshaye’s “Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière de Mollusques.” Published in Paris by J. B. Baillière, 1820 - 1851.

The plates were drawn by some of the finest natural history artists in France at the time, including Bessa, Huet, Prêtre, and Riocreu. Supervised by Langlois (the printer responsible for some of Redouté's finest work) the vast majority of these engravings were printed in colour and finished by hand.

"Posterity is grateful to Férussac for some of the most beautiful and accurate coloured figures of non-marine molluscs ever published."

(S. Peter Dance, A History of Shell Collecting p. 91)