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10 volumes 4to (169 x 175 mm) lithographed portrait o-frontispiece of Piton de Tournefort en frontispiece, title, VI, XXVIII, 100 plates (numbered 1 to 100) engraved and printed in colors with accompanying text for volume I ; lithographed portrait of Sébastien Vaillant, title, 107 plates (numbered 101 to 207) engraved and printed in colors with accompanying text for volume II ; lithographed portrait of Jacques Barrelier, title, 93 plates (numbered 208 to 300) engraved and printed in colors with accompanying text for volume III ; lithographed portrait of Michel Adanson, title, 100 plates (numbered 301 à 400) engraved and printed in colors with accompanying text, 1 un.l. (subscribers list), VI pp. (index), 1 un.l. (errata) for volume IV ; lithographed portrait of Louis-Henri Duhamel Dumonceau, title, 100 plates (numbered 401 to 500) engraved and printed in colors with accompanying text for volume V ; lithographed portrait of René Louiche Desfontaines, title, 100 plates (numbered 501 to 600) engraved and printed in colors with accompanying text for volume VI ; lithographed portrait of André Thouin, title, 100 plates (numbered 601 to 700) engraved and printed in colors with accompanying text for volume VII ; lithographed portrait of Jean-Baptiste Pierre-Antoine Monet de Lamarck, title, 100 plates (numbered 701 to 800) engraved and printed in colors with accompanying text for volume VIII ; lithographed portrait of Jacques Julien de la Billardière, title, 100 plates (numbered 801 to 900) engraved and printed in colors with accompanying text for volume IX ; lithographed portrait of Jean-Henri Jaume de Saint-Hilaire, title, 100 plates (numbered 901 to 1000) engraved and printed in colors with accompanying text for volume X. Contemporary Morocco backed boards signed ‘R.P. Thouvenin‘, spine gilt with raised bands.
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Nissen, BBI, 989 ; Brunet, III, 517 ; see Fléty, 168 (for the binder).
First edition.
A large paper copy in 4to format, complete with its 10 engraved portraits and 1000 engraved plates printed in colour.
Initially conceived in 4 volumes (published in 54 issues), the work was interrupted in 1809 and only resumed ten years later in 1819 by Jaume Saint Hilaire, who added six further volumes, published in 60 issues. Trained in flower painting in Gérard van Spaendonck's studio, Jaume Saint-Hilaire himself produced all the drawings used to illustrate this work.
Slightly toned, with occasional foxing.
A very fine copy, entirely untrimmed, complete with all the required plates and bound by Thouvenin at the time.
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