Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis

Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre. Paris: Didot, Michel, et Lamy, [1800]–1804–1819



7 volumes, folio (16 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.; 417 x 260 mm). 2 uncolored and 496 color-printed engraved plates, finished by hand, after P. J. Redouté and Pancrace Bessa, first title-page engraved with vignette; occasional spotting, browning or marginal tears, engraved title lightly browned. Nineteenth-century half brown calf gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, red-sprinkled edges; many spines worn, many covers detached.

John Wingfield Larking (armorial bookplate) — The Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont (discreet blindstamp in upper right corners of selected text leaves; with deaccessioning letter)

Nissen, BBI 549; Hunt/Redoutéana 14; Great Flower Books, p. 55; Dunthorne 243; Pritzel 2470

Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre. Paris: Didot, Michel, et Lamy, [1800]–1804–1819 7 volumes, folio (16 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.; 417 x 260 mm). 2 uncolored and 496 color-printed engraved plates, finished by hand, after P. J. Redouté and Pancrace Bessa, first title-page engraved with vignette; occasional spotting, browning or marginal tears, engraved title lightly browned. Nineteenth-century half brown calf gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, red-sprinkled edges; many spines worn, many covers detached.
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Second edition, large-paper copy. This second edition "was actually an entirely new book, now generally referred to as the Nouveau Duhamel. ... 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 botantists. In its new form the book remained for decades one of the basic works for western dendrological botany" (Stafleu, in Hunt/Redoutéana, p. 18). Internally, an attractive copy, preserving deckle on many plates.