CHARTON, JACQUES. Collection de plantes étrangères en fleurs, fruits, corail et coquillages. [Paris:] chez l'auteur, [1784]. Folio, 437 x 283 mm., half red morocco gilt, g.e., by Riviere, extremities worn and chipped, title soiled and stained, a few minor repairs and restorations in the gutters of a few leaves, plate [12] torn and repaired in subject, other minor repairs, offsetting (mostly light) affecting some plates, occasional stains . 58 (of 61?) hand-colored engraved un-numbered plates after drawings by Charton, of a wide variety of natural history subjects, mostly flowers, with animals and some figurative scenes, set in exotic arrangements; including plants from China, Japan, India, Africa, Europe, North and South America. VERY RARE, and unrecorded by most of the standard bibliographies. Nissen cites the title as a Collection de 12 cahiers des plantes étrangers, fleurs, fruites, corails et coquillages (Paris, 1784) and does not give the number of plates. There is no text. Nissen BBI Supplement 349n. Provenance : Unidentified consignor (sale, Sotheby's London, 13 April 1989, lot 11).
CHARTON, JACQUES. Collection de plantes étrangères en fleurs, fruits, corail et coquillages. [Paris:] chez l'auteur, [1784]. Folio, 437 x 283 mm., half red morocco gilt, g.e., by Riviere, extremities worn and chipped, title soiled and stained, a few minor repairs and restorations in the gutters of a few leaves, plate [12] torn and repaired in subject, other minor repairs, offsetting (mostly light) affecting some plates, occasional stains . 58 (of 61?) hand-colored engraved un-numbered plates after drawings by Charton, of a wide variety of natural history subjects, mostly flowers, with animals and some figurative scenes, set in exotic arrangements; including plants from China, Japan, India, Africa, Europe, North and South America. VERY RARE, and unrecorded by most of the standard bibliographies. Nissen cites the title as a Collection de 12 cahiers des plantes étrangers, fleurs, fruites, corails et coquillages (Paris, 1784) and does not give the number of plates. There is no text. Nissen BBI Supplement 349n. Provenance : Unidentified consignor (sale, Sotheby's London, 13 April 1989, lot 11).
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