Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps | Herbier général de l'amateur, [1810]-1827, 8 volumes

MORDAUNT DE LAUNAY, JEAN CLAUDE MICHEL, AND JEAN LOUIS AUGUSTE LOISELEUR-DESLONGCHAMPS

Herbier général de l’amateur, contenant la description, l’histoire, les propriétés et la culture des végétaux utiles et agréables. Paris: Audot, [1810]-1827

FIRST EDITION, 8 volumes, royal 8vo (273 x 176mm.), half-titles, plate lists in Latin and French in each volume, separately printed explanations of the plates (at end of volume 1 and 2 only), list of subscribers in volume 8, 575 hand-coloured engraved plates (numbered 1-572, 6 double-page, 3 bis: 171, 172 and 199) after Pancrace Bessa, Pierre Joseph Redouté, and Pierre Antoine Poiteau by P. F. Barrois, S. Goulet, A. F. Dennel, Bigant, Lejuene, and others, contemporary blue calf-backed boards gilt, uncut, occasional spotting, foot of spine of volume one starting, spines faded, slightly rubbed

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p.159; Nissen BBI 2323