Redouté, Pierre-Joseph, and C. A. Thory

6 volumes, 8vo (235 x 155mm., plate volumes slightly larger), hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of a garland of roses, 2 plain portraits of the authors, 3 hand-coloured anatomical plates, 180 hand-coloured engraved plates of roses, nineteenth-century green half morocco gilt, gilt floral centrepieces, top edges gilt, [Nissen BBI 1599], occasional light spotting, binding rubbed at edges

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The third (second octavo) edition of Redouté’s classic work.