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84 1739 Botany  Redouté P J
84 1739 Botany  Redouté P J
84 1739 Botany  Redouté P J
84 1739 Botany  Redouté P J
84 1739 Botany  Redouté P J
84/1739 [Botany]. Redouté, P.J. Choix des plus belles fleurs, prises dans différentes familles du règne végétal, et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits groupée quelquefois, et souvent animées par des insectes et des papillons. Gravées, imprimées en couleur et retouchée au pinceau avec un soin qui doit répondre de leur perfection. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, n.d. (after 1833), (4),20p., 144 numb. engr. plates by Langlois, Bessin, Chapuy and Victor after P.J. REDOUTÉ, printed in colours and finished by hand, contemp. gilt hmor., t.e.g., folio.

- Some (sl.) foxing almost throughout, mainly in blank margins, but most plates fine (2 plates yellowed); text-pages more severely foxed and w. sm. stain in inner blank margin. Binding rubbed and sl. worn at extremities; corners showing.

= The plates skipping the nos. 25, 67 and 135, which were never published, and including nos. 59bis, 89bis and 114bis. Originally published without text, but this copy with the "Introduction" (4p.) and the "Table Alphabétique et Explicative" by D.M. Guillemain published in 1833. Nissen, BBI 1591; Pritzel 7456; Dunthorpe 235; Blunt/ Stearne p.205. "A superb work, one of the finest of all collections of flower prints, showing to full advantage the brilliancy of colour printing" (Dunthorpe). SEE ILLUSTRATION ON THE FRONTCOVER.

€ (15.000-20.000)

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