PHILIBERT. EXERCISES DE BOTANIQUE. 1801

Estimate

500 - 800 GBP

Sold

bidding is closed

Description

Exercises de botanique. Paris: Bossange, Masson and Besson, 1801

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 4to (260 x 177mm.), 157 hand-coloured engraved plates, some after drawings by Turpin, without the 1803 Dictionnaire which sometimes accompanies the work, nineteenth-century calf-backed boards

Provenance

Arpad Plesch, bookplate, sale in these rooms, 18 November 1975, lot 597, £200; Christian Heuer, bookplate

Literature

Nissen BBI 1527; Stafleu TL2 7842

Catalogue Note

THE PLESCH COPY.