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Beyond simple dictionaries, botanical floras have driven major biological advancements through plant classification."

MILLER, Philip.

Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, exibited on three hundred copper plates.

London, printed for the author, 1771.

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14500 €

A reissue of the first 1760 edition.
Philip Miller, was director of the Chelsea Garden and was considered as "the greatest gardener of his time".
Beautiful books illustrated with 300 colored plates of plants.
Rare complete and in this condition.

BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri.

Historia plantarum universalis.

Yverdon, s.n., 1650-1651.

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7000 €

First edition, first issue of Bauhin's magnum opus. Describing over 5,000 plants in a meticulous manner, the Historia plantarum first appeared in 1650 after 31 years in preparation. Bauhin, a Swiss botanist and physician, endeavored to describe not only the organs and properties of the plants herein, but their ecology as well.
This first issue is rare. Most of copies known are from later issues (Norman, The Cleveland Collections, ...).
First issue with the gathering Secund Oooo et Secund Aaaaa on the third volume as described in Hunt, and with the index of part 3 (not required in Hunt).

BULLIARD, Pierre.

Dictionnaire élémentaire de botanique, ou Exposition par ordre alphabétique, des préceptes de la botanique, et de tous les termes, tant françois que latins, consacrés à l'étude de cette science.

Paris, Imprimerie Crapelet, 1797.

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750 €

A Folio edition with 9 color plates.

[MOET, Jean-Pierre].

Traité de la culture des renoncules, des oeillets, des auricules, et des tulipes.

Paris, Saugrain, 1754.

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150 €

First edition.

ROQUES, Joseph.

Plantes usuelles, indigènes et exotiques, dessinées et coloriées d'après nature, avec la description de leurs caractères distinctifs et de leurs propriétés médicales.

Paris, Chez l'auteur (et Vve Hocquart), 1807-1808.

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First edition.
Joseph Roques (1772-1850) is a botanist who remains famous for his beautiful illustrated editions of flora which will remain references in the 19th century.

Our copy is complete with 133 finely watercolor plates gathering hundred's of botanical subjects (we also have the errata leaves on volume II which is often missing).
The author tells us in his preliminary speech that the execution of the engravings "was entrusted to Artists of distinguished merit". The result is a delicacy of the illustrations which clearly stood out from the lot of botany textbooks of the time.

A magnificent work, but also scientifically rigorous.
Finding that most of the medical floras of the time flirted with charlatanism, Roques has here selected only plants whose medicinal properties have been proven during his practice of medicine in Montpellier and gives their precise use.
To reach both the general public and scientists, he gives for each of the plants the popular name, the scientific name as well as their positions in the classification systems of Linnaeus, Tournefort and Jussieu. It is thus one of the last floras using this triple classification, an unified system being imposed in the modern era.

LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste || CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de.

Flore française, ou Descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France, disposées selon une nouvelle méthode d'analyse, et précédées par un Exposé des principes élémentaires de la botanique.

Paris, Desbay, 1815.

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500 €

Third edition.
This third edition was completely revised by the Swiss botanist Candolle in 1805. It was reprinted in 1815 with new title pages to accompany Volume V in the original edition. This latest volume includes 1300 species not described in the previous ones.

REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph || THORY, Claude Antoine.

Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté.

Paris, Panckoucke, 1824-1826.

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10000 €

Second edition and the FIRST LARGE OCTAVO edition, published immediately after the original folio and appeared in forty issues from January 10, 1824 to December 27, 1826. Each issue, printed on vellum paper, includes four to seven leaves of text as well only four plates which are reproductions of the folio engravings, engraved here again and colored under Redouté's very eyes. The text sheets contain the descriptions of Claude-Antoine Thory (1757-1827).

A complete copy of the 160 color plates of Redouté's famous roses.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Histoire des insectes nuisibles à l'Homme, aux bestiaux, à l'agriculture et au jardinage.

Paris, Chez L'Auteur, 1784.

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120 €

Third edition.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

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Eric Zink antiquarian bookseller. Old and Rare Books

Our specialties : Science, Medicine and Occult

MILLER, Philip.

Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, exibited on three hundred copper plates.

A reissue of the first 1760 edition. Philip Miller, was director of the Chelsea Garden and was considered as "the greatest gardener of his time". Beautiful books illustrated with 300 colored plates of plants. Rare complete and in this condition.

BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri.

Historia plantarum universalis.

BULLIARD, Pierre.

Dictionnaire élémentaire de botanique, ou Exposition par ordre alphabétique, des préceptes de la botanique, et de tous les termes, tant françois que latins, consacrés à l'étude de cette science.

A Folio edition with 9 color plates.

[MOET, Jean-Pierre].

Traité de la culture des renoncules, des oeillets, des auricules, et des tulipes.

First edition.

ROQUES, Joseph.

Plantes usuelles, indigènes et exotiques, dessinées et coloriées d'après nature, avec la description de leurs caractères distinctifs et de leurs propriétés médicales.

LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste || CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de.

Flore française, ou Descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France, disposées selon une nouvelle méthode d'analyse, et précédées par un Exposé des principes élémentaires de la botanique.

Third edition.This third edition was completely revised by the Swiss botanist Candolle in 1805. It was reprinted in 1815 with new title pages to accompany Volume V in the original edition. This latest volume includes 1300 species not described in the previous ones.

REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph || THORY, Claude Antoine.

Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Histoire des insectes nuisibles à l'Homme, aux bestiaux, à l'agriculture et au jardinage.

Third edition.Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

A reissue of the first 1760 edition.
Philip Miller, was director of the Chelsea Garden and was considered as "the greatest gardener of his time".
Beautiful books illustrated with 300 colored plates of plants.
Rare complete and in this condition.

Third edition.
This third edition was completely revised by the Swiss botanist Candolle in 1805. It was reprinted in 1815 with new title pages to accompany Volume V in the original edition. This latest volume includes 1300 species not described in the previous ones.

Third edition.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.