Description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris
Description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris is a natural history atlas of fossil shells from the Paris basin, written by Gérard-Paul Deshayes and published in Paris by F.-G. Levrault in 1837 for palaeontologists and collectors. Its numbered copperplate pages show shells in clean outline and hatched shading, with each specimen labelled by letter and number. A designer could take the orderly grid layouts, the fine cross-hatching that describes curved surfaces, and the handwritten annotations in the margins.
