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Folio (403 x 247 mm) engraved portrait frontispiece, 18 nn.ll., XII pp., 2 nn.ll. (author's index and list of subscribers), 205 pp., 24 nn.ll., 1 engraved folding map, 33 engraved plates with 354 vignettes. Contemporary mottled calf, sine gilt with raised bands, red speckled edges (some old restorations, upper hinge partly split).
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Nissen, 2033; Pritzel, 9657; Hunt, 470.
First edition.
"Sébastien Vaillant is honored in France as the man who first understood the nature of sex in plants. He was a student of Tournefort's and considerably influenced Linnaeus". (Hunt).
The illustration, by Aubriet, consists of an engraved portrait of the author, a large fold-out map of the archdiocese of Paris, and 33 plates of plants and plant details. Claude Aubriet was one of the finest botanical draughtsmen of his time and had worked for Tournefort.
Provenance: Chalette (signature on the title) and some notes on paste-ons on the plates. This could well be de Chalette, author of De la Médecine des chevaux (Paris, Hérissant, 1763).
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