Oryctographie de Bruxelles : ou description des fossiles tant naturels qu'accidentels découverts jusqu'à ce jour dans les environs de cette ville
Oryctographie de Bruxelles is an 1784 natural history book by François-Xavier Burtin, published in Brussels for naturalists and collectors, describing fossils found around that city. Its engraved plates are hand-coloured, with fossil shells and stone specimens drawn in close detail on cream paper, with plate numbers and labels set in plain frames, offering a designer quiet, scientific specimen layouts with lettered callouts.
