Abrégé de la Vie des Plus Fameux Peintres, Vol. 1 Avec Leurs Portraits Graves en Taille-Douce, les Indications de Leurs Principaux Ouvrages; Quelques ... les Tableaux des Grands Maît (French Edition) by Antoine Joseph Dezallierd'Argenville Paperback, 487 Pages, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-390-37527-5, ISBN: 1-390-37527-7
"Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680 1765) was so bewitched by seashells that he authored one of the world's most spectacular books dedicated to seashells. His La Conchyliologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Coquilles de Mer, d'Eau Douce, Terrestres et Fossiles, published at Paris in 1780, was a summa of contemporary knowledge in the complementary fields of mineralogy and conchology, and was so popular as to turn the study of natural ..."