Ventes live - Lot 1195
[Botany - Dictionary]
Principes de la philosophie du botaniste ou Dictionnaire interprète et raisonné des principaux préceptes et des termes que la botanique, la médecine, la physique, la chymie et l'agriculture ont consacrés à l'étude et à la connoissance des plantes.
Paris, H. Nicolle, An VII [1799]
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Description du lot
8vo: xv-[1]-462-[1] pp.
Contemp. mottled calf (corners sl. rubbed), flat gilt spine. Good copy.
Later edition by French Benedictine botanist Jolyclerc (1746-1817). He served as a clergyman to the congregation of Saint-Maur in Lyon but at the time of the Revolution he left the church and became a botany instructor. We could not trace another copy with the same imprint.
Ref. Cp. BnF, Worldcat (mentions Levacher as printer for the "An VII" (1799) edition), Pritzel 4465. - Not in Nissen, Stafleu & Cowan.