Live auction - Lot 703
[Botany]
Histoire des plantes d'Europe, ou Élémens de botanique pratique [...].
Lyon, A. Leroy, an VIe de la République française [1798]
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
2 vol. 8vo: [8]-xxxii-446-[1], [2]-xvi-482-[1] pp.; 4 pl. (occ. foxing, last f. of vol. II pasted on endpaper).
Cont. tree calf, gilt orn. flat spines, yellow edges (joints split, heads lacking, corners much bumped).
First edition of the work of the freemason Gilibert (1741-1814) on European botany. Illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts in texto, 3 pl. (one fold.) and with 2 fold. tables. Ref. Nissen (BBI) 705. - Not in Pritzel.