VAILLANT, SEBASTIEN and CLAUDE AUBRIET Botanicon parisiense, ou denombrement par ordre alphabetique des plantes, qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris. Leiden and Amsterdam: J.& H. Verbeek and B. Lakeman, 1727. Folio, 430 x 270 mm., old quarter vellum and marbled boards, uncut, plate 29 slightly torn, browned at end of volume . FIRST EDITION. Engraved portrait by Houbraken, folding engraved map of the archdiocese of Paris and 33 engraved plates of plants and plant details by J. Wandelaar afer Claude Aubriet; half-title, title printed in red and black. Hunt 470 ("Sebastien Vaillant is honored in France as the man wo first understood the nature of sex in plants. He was a student of Tournefort's and considerably influenced Linnaeus."); Nissen BBI 2033. Robert de Belder -- DODART DENIS. Memories pouer servir a l'histoire des plantes...avec les descriptions de quleques arbres et de quelques plantes de Malaque par le Pére de Beze, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Amsterdam and Leipzig: Arkstee & Merkus 1758. 4to, 263 x 220 mm., modern half cloth, preserving contemporary blue paper wrappers, uncut, plate 31 torn and repaired, some browing of text and plates . Third Edition. 38 folding engraved plates. Nissen BBI 502; Pritzel 2341. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (2)
VAILLANT, SEBASTIEN and CLAUDE AUBRIET Botanicon parisiense, ou denombrement par ordre alphabetique des plantes, qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris. Leiden and Amsterdam: J.& H. Verbeek and B. Lakeman, 1727. Folio, 430 x 270 mm., old quarter vellum and marbled boards, uncut, plate 29 slightly torn, browned at end of volume . FIRST EDITION. Engraved portrait by Houbraken, folding engraved map of the archdiocese of Paris and 33 engraved plates of plants and plant details by J. Wandelaar afer Claude Aubriet; half-title, title printed in red and black. Hunt 470 ("Sebastien Vaillant is honored in France as the man wo first understood the nature of sex in plants. He was a student of Tournefort's and considerably influenced Linnaeus."); Nissen BBI 2033. Robert de Belder -- DODART DENIS. Memories pouer servir a l'histoire des plantes...avec les descriptions de quleques arbres et de quelques plantes de Malaque par le Pére de Beze, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Amsterdam and Leipzig: Arkstee & Merkus 1758. 4to, 263 x 220 mm., modern half cloth, preserving contemporary blue paper wrappers, uncut, plate 31 torn and repaired, some browing of text and plates . Third Edition. 38 folding engraved plates. Nissen BBI 502; Pritzel 2341. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (2)
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