Traité des pétrifications
Traité des pétrifications is an 1778 French treatise on fossils by Louis Bourguet, published by Jombert with additions by Pierre Cartier, aimed at naturalists and collectors. Its numbered copperplate engravings show fossil shells and petrified stones drawn in fine hatched line, with the figure numbers and Roman plate numerals printed beside each group, offering a designer clear, systematic studies of organic form and natural texture.
