Abhandlungen zur geologischen Spezialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen
A German geological survey monograph published in 1882 by R. Schultz & Cie, part of the series of papers accompanying the geological special map of Alsace-Lorraine, aimed at specialist geologists and palaeontologists. Its plates are finely shaded engravings of fossil shells, showing each specimen from several angles with lettered and numbered figures. A designer might draw on the stippled, tonal rendering of ribbed bivalve shells and the orderly grid of labelled specimens on cream paper.
