BULLIARD, Pierre. Flora Parisiensis ou descriptions et figures des plantes qui croissent aux environs de Paris avec les différens noms, classes, ordres et genres qui leur conviennent, rangés selon la méthode sexuelle de Linné. 1776-1783.
BULLIARD, Pierre.
Flora Parisiensis ou descriptions et figures des plantes qui croissent aux environs de Paris avec les différens noms, classes, ordres et genres qui leur conviennent, rangés selon la méthode sexuelle de Linné.
Paris, Didot jeune, 1776-1783.
Six 8vo (198x121 mm),
I : Colored engraved title page , (4 )-32-(2) pages, plate I and II (introduction à la Flore), plates 1 to 108 and their explanation leaves, (4) pages (approbation);
T2 : Engraved title page, plates 109 to 215 and their explanation leaves;
T3 : Engraved title page, plates 216 to 318 and their explanation leaves;
T4 : Engraved title page, plates 319 to 420 and their explanation leaves;
T5 : Engraved title page, plates 421 to 536 and their explanation leaves;
T6 : Engraved title page, plates 537 to 640 and their explanation leaves, 52 pages (tables and Linné's system), 16 pages (tables). binding : Contemporary calf. Gilt flat spines. Caps chipped with old repairs. Few corner chipped. Some waterstains.
First and only edition of this classic herbal of plants from Paris, illustrated with 642 engraved hand-colored plates.
A complete copy with the "introduction" of 32 pages and 2 plates, the "table françoise" (52 pages xith the errate and the Linneaus system) and the "nouvelle table" of 16 pages.
"Pierre Bulliard, was another picturesque outsider whose works represented the Linnaean tradition in Paris. Bulliard was a descriptive naturalist, little given to theoretical or methodological meditations, but an industrious and skilled draftsman and floristic botanist" (Stafleu).
references: Hartmann [in. L’Herbier de Pierre Bulliard ... : "les 640 planches de la 'Flora parisiensis' (...) gravées et coloriées à la main sont des chefs d’œuvres de finesse, de délicatesse et de minutie qui témoignent de la maîtrise et de la très grande habileté de leur auteur"], Stafleu [in. Linnaeus and the linnaeans p. 289 : "The six volume Flora Parisiensis (1776-1783), now a rarity, contained descriptions and plates (by Bulliard himself) of 640 taxa... The Linnaean system was outlined in a separate introduction], Dunthorne [69], Pritzel [1352 (introduction à la Flore) et 1353 (Flora], Stafleu & Cowan [TL2 904], Sitwell & Blunt [p.81], Nissen [295].
Price : 9500 €
