Lot n° 33
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[ROZIER (François) ; CLARET DE LA TOURETTE (Marc Antoine Lou - Lot 33
[ROZIER (François) ; CLARET DE LA TOURETTE (Marc Antoine Louis). Démonstrations élémentaires de botanique, contenant les principes généraux de cette science, l'explication des termes, les fondemens des méthodes, & les élémens de la physique des végétaux. The description of the most common, most curious, and most useful plants, arranged according to the method of M. de Tournefort and that of the knight Linné. Their uses and properties in the arts, in rural economy, in human and veterinary medicine; as well as an instruction on the formation of a herbarium, on the desiccation, maceration, infusion of plants, etc. A Lyon, chez Bruyset Frères, 1787. 3 vol. in-8, LII-176 p., XX-482 p. + LXXXVIII-580 p. + [2] f., 720 p., contemporary marbled havana basane, spine with 5 nerves, red title-piece, tomaison, gilt fillets and fleurons, cold fillet on the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, blue speckled edges (binding rubbed, defects including a head cap, dull corners, epid. ;
Third edition corrected and considerably enlarged by [Jean Emmanuel Gilibert].
13 engraved plates, some folding, some signed by J.B.A. Gautier.
Modern dry stamp of a bookshop, repeated on the endpapers.
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