Botany.- Dodart (Denis) and Nicolas Robert Eighteen plates from 'Estampes pour servir a l'histoire des plantes', engravings by Nicolas Robert Abraham Bosse and Louis de Chatillon after Robert, later hand-colouring, all on uniform cream laid papers without watermarks, gilt edges, platemarks each approx. 400 x 300 mm. (15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in), sheets approx. 650 x 480 mm. (25 1/2 x 18 7/8 in), each sheet with expert repair to central perforation, one sheet with re-enforced margins, some nicks and small losses to extremities, loose and unframed, [circa 1786] (18) Literature: cf. Brunet IV.1325; Nissen BBI 503 & 504
Botany.- Dodart (Denis) and Nicolas Robert Eighteen plates from 'Estampes pour servir a l'histoire des plantes', engravings by Nicolas Robert Abraham Bosse and Louis de Chatillon after Robert, later hand-colouring, all on uniform cream laid papers without watermarks, gilt edges, platemarks each approx. 400 x 300 mm. (15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in), sheets approx. 650 x 480 mm. (25 1/2 x 18 7/8 in), each sheet with expert repair to central perforation, one sheet with re-enforced margins, some nicks and small losses to extremities, loose and unframed, [circa 1786] (18) Literature: cf. Brunet IV.1325; Nissen BBI 503 & 504
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