Item #16-3488 A collection of 40 color plates from "Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre." First edition with the plates. Pierre Joseph Redouté, M. Duhamel du Monceau, Artist, Author.
A collection of 40 color plates from "Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre." First edition with the plates.
A collection of 40 color plates from "Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre." First edition with the plates.
A collection of 40 color plates from "Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre." First edition with the plates.
A collection of 40 color plates from "Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre." First edition with the plates.

A collection of 40 color plates from "Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre." First edition with the plates.

Paris: chez Didot aîné, au Louvre ; Michel, rue des Francs-Bourgeois au Marais n°. 699 ; et Lamy, quai des Augustins n°. 26. [ca 1800-1805]. Folio. 43 x 26.5 cm. Stipple engravings printed in colors. Printed on rag wove paper. Most with light waterstains in upper left. Most from vols. 2 and 3. One plate by Pancrace Bessa (from Vol. 5). .

No less than twenty-nine engravers were engaged for this reproduction of Redouté's paintings. The book was virtually new, although it carried as its author the name of France's outstanding dendrologist of the mid-eighteenth century. The plates were new and the text was rewritten by six different botanists. In its new form the book remained for decades one of the basic works for western dendrological botany" (Stafleu, in Hunt, Redoutéana).

Dunthorne 243; Nissen BBI 549; Hunt, Redoutéana 14; Great Flower Books, p. 55 or 91. Item #16-3488

Price: $1,500.00

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