Possibly written by Sander Rang? Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat. (Nat. hist.), v. 4, p. 1644. However, the work is entered under title in NUC Pre-1956, v. 25, p. 152. No evidence for authorship was found in the work itself Most of the plates also appeared in the 1802 ed. of Bosc's Histoire naturelle des coquilles. Cf. C. Nissen, Zoologische Buchillustration, no. 3285 "De l'imprimerie de Crapelet" --Colophon, p. 16 Plates drawn by Deseve and engraved by a number of different engravers, among them Voyez, J. Maillet, and Tardieu (veuve) Publisher's advertisement, "Note des différens Atlas d'histoire naturelle qui se vendent séparément chez le même libraire ...", appears on verso of half-title Most of the plates have numbers (i.e. press figures?) in the lower right corner of the impression, in addition to the plate numbering at the top right corner Includes index extracted picklist SCNHRB copy 39088008862260 has an illegible German library stamp on t.p., marked withdrawn SCNHRB copy has an old shelf-mark label on spine for Zoolog. Institut Leipzig, moll. 3 SCNHRB copy has stamp on front paste-down endpaper: S. Stillman Berry ... Redlands, California; dated in ink "19.VI.1970" SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Gift of Clyde Roper SCNHRB copy has an old buff-colored paperboard binding with gilt-lettered orange paper spine label