Lot N. 18
Shells (1789)
three watercolor etchings, representing two varieties of Anodontite, with passe-partout, slight traces of foxing
passe-partout 46x39 cm (3)
Robert Benard Direxit.
From Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature (1782-1832), Histoire Naturelle (revised and expanded version of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie) published in the 1789 edition by the French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, plates 201, 202, 204