DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, HENRI LOUIS. Traité des arbres fruitiers...nouvelle édition, augmentée d'un grand nombre d'espèces de fruits obtenus des progrès de la culture, par A. Poiteau et P. J. F. Turpin. Paris and Strassburg: F.G. Levrault, [1807-] 1835. 6 vols. in 5, large folio, 532 x 342 mm., contemporary green half morocco gilt, t.e.g., rebacked with backstrips laid down, some foxing and browning to text and plates throughout, edges of the sheets a little darkened, three plates with a stain in margin, no. 116 with ragged edges, no. 285 creased and repaired, one text leaf torn and repaired. FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER COPY. 2 plain and 420 stipple-engraved plates printed in colors and finished by hand, by 23 engravers after the drawings by Poiteau and Turpin, printed by Langlois, half-titles. The finest and most extensive work on fruit, independent from Duhamel's Traité , 1768, from which, in homage, it takes its title. Dunthorne 192; Great Flower Books , p. 55; Nissen BBI 551; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1548. Provenance : Robert de Belder (sale, Sotheby's London, 27 April 1987, lot 110). (5)
DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, HENRI LOUIS. Traité des arbres fruitiers...nouvelle édition, augmentée d'un grand nombre d'espèces de fruits obtenus des progrès de la culture, par A. Poiteau et P. J. F. Turpin. Paris and Strassburg: F.G. Levrault, [1807-] 1835. 6 vols. in 5, large folio, 532 x 342 mm., contemporary green half morocco gilt, t.e.g., rebacked with backstrips laid down, some foxing and browning to text and plates throughout, edges of the sheets a little darkened, three plates with a stain in margin, no. 116 with ragged edges, no. 285 creased and repaired, one text leaf torn and repaired. FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER COPY. 2 plain and 420 stipple-engraved plates printed in colors and finished by hand, by 23 engravers after the drawings by Poiteau and Turpin, printed by Langlois, half-titles. The finest and most extensive work on fruit, independent from Duhamel's Traité , 1768, from which, in homage, it takes its title. Dunthorne 192; Great Flower Books , p. 55; Nissen BBI 551; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1548. Provenance : Robert de Belder (sale, Sotheby's London, 27 April 1987, lot 110). (5)
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