Friedrich Wilhelm Martini

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Frontispice de Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet.
Frontispice de Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet.

Friedrich Wilhelm Martini (1729-1780) was a Germany|German physician

Martini who practised in Hamburg began, in 1769 , the richly colour illustrated shell book: Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. But he died after the publication of the third volume. His work was continued by Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz (1730-1800) who added eight volumes between 1779 and 1795. Even though the work does not use the binomial system both are considered the authors of the new species figured.

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  • Stanley Peter Dance (1966). Shell Collecting. An Illustrated History. Faber and Faber (Londres) : 344 p.
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