Mémoire instructif sur la manière de rassembler, de préparer, de conserver, et d'envoyer les diverses curiosités d'histoire naturelle
A 1758 French instruction manual printed in Lyon by Jean Marie Bruyset, written by Turgot, La Galissonnière and Duhamel du Monceau, guiding collectors on gathering, preparing, preserving and shipping natural history specimens. Its engraved plates, numbered and captioned in French, show shells, corals and sponges drawn in fine hatched line with clear shading, offering a designer a model of precise scientific specimen illustration in monochrome.
