WE ARE OFFERING AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE LITHOGRAPH FROM "DICTIONNAIRE UNIVERSEL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE" BY CHARLES D'ORBIGNY, ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDOUARD TRAVIES, THE WORK IS OVER 170 YEARS OLD AND IS RARE, THE PRINTS ARE HIGHLY DECORATIVE, SIZE 24.0 X 16.2 CM OR 9.5 BY 6.4 INCHES. MOST OF THE PRINTS ARE SIGNED "TRAVIES PINX/FOURNIER SC." (TRAVIES PAINTED/FOURNIER SCULPTED).

Title/Image Name: Gasteropodes Plate # 10....Commonly known as Marine Gastropod Molluscs, Sea Snails, Moon Snails, Bubble Snails, Limpets.   

Author/Artist: Charles d'Orbigny, "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle".

Date of Publication: Published by Renard, Martinet et Cie. Paris, (1840-49). Illustrations by Edouard Travies and A. Fournier.

Type of Print: Original colored lithograph. Hand finished. Most of the prints are signed "Travies pinx/Fournier sc." (Travies painted/Fournier sculpted).

Size of Image/Print: approx. 24.0 x 16.2 cm or 9.5 by 6.4 inches. Full original margins, the reverse side is blank.

Condition: In very good condition, slightly age-toned, some foxing or spotting, minor blemishes to be expected with prints of this age (170 years). Printed on high quality, heavy paper, this plate has amazing detail. The photos are very accurate, so please review carefully.

Description: Charles d'Orbigny (1802-1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology, palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology. In Paris he became a disciple of the geologist Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777-1861) and Georges Cuvier (1769–1832). D'Orbigny travelled on a mission for the Paris Museum, in South America between 1826 and 1833 and returned to France with an enormous collection of more than 10,000 natural history specimens. His contemporary, Charles Darwin, arrived in South America in 1832, and on hearing that he had been preceded, grumbled that D'Orbigny had probably collected "the cream of all the good things" Darwin later called D'Orbigny's Voyage a "most important work". Edouard Traviès (1809-1876) was a French animal painter and illustrator, he specialized in painting birds, animals and insects, his paintings were exhibited regularly at the Salon of Paris between 1831 and 1866. "The plates in this remarkable work render it the best illustrated encyclopaedia of natural history" (Wood).

References: Casey Wood 323. Pritzel 6846.

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