Lot 34
  • 34

Duhamel du Monceau, Henri-Louis

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre... seconde édition considérablement augmentée. Paris: Didot, Michel, et Bertrand, [1800]-1819
  • PAPER
Second edition (see below), 7 volumes, folio (410 x 252mm.), half-titles in each volume, engraved title to volume one, 498 stipple engraved plates of flowers and fruit, all but 2 printed in colours and finished by hand, after Redouté, Bessa and others, contemporary tree calf gilt, occasional browning or spotting

Literature

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

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

A FINE, TALL 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 botanists. In its new form the book remained for decades one of the basic works for western dendrological botany" (Stafleu, in Hunt, Redoutéana).