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Hecueil de Coquillages, de Lima^ons 

 & de Cruftaces, peints d'apres nature, 

 graves en taille douce, & illumines de 

 leurs vrais couleurs, par Francois Michel 

 Regenfus, and publifhed by the order of 

 the king of Denmark at Copenhagen, in 

 1758, on a very large folio paper. 



This royal work has twelve plates finely 

 illuminated; and the letter prefs, which is in 

 German and French, contains*, befides the 

 dedication and preliminary epidle, the Na- 

 tural Hiftory of Shells, in two parts. Part I. 

 confifts of twenty-eight pages; and part II. 

 of fifty- four pages. A fecond volu me of this 

 work has been begun, and a confiderable 

 progrefs is made in it ; but as the ingenious 

 author colours every plate by his own hand, 

 the progrefs is confequently flow. 



Martini on Shells, intitled, the New Syf- 

 tematical Cabinet of Shells, by Frederick 

 William Martini, printed at Nuremberg, 

 1768, in 4to*. 



* NeuesSyftematifches Conchylien- Cabinet Geord- 

 net unci befchriben, Von Fricdrich Heinrich Wil- 

 helm Martini, &c. Nurnburg. . 



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