BULLIARD, Pierre. Elementary Dictionary of Botany, or an Alp - Lot 51

BULLIARD, Pierre. Elementary Dictionary of Botany, or an Alphabetical Exposition of the Principles of Botany and of All Terms, Both French and Latin, Pertaining to the Study of This Science. Paris, printed by Crapelet, sold by Desray, Year VI, 1797. Small folio, black glazed half-basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets. XII–242 pp., 4 unnumbered folios (explanations of the illustrations), and 10 engraved plates. At the end, a catalog of botanical books from the Baillère bookstore (4 pp.) Binding rubbed with scuffs on the spine; a few faint water stains in the margins of the plates. Second edition, illustrated with 10 separate plates, the first nine of which are printed in color. The dictionary of Latin terms devoted to the study of botany is printed in two columns on slightly bluish paper. Pierre Bulliard (1752–1793), a naturalist and science popularizer, published high-quality illustrated works at a lower cost. To achieve this, he was one of the first to avoid having to color the illustrations by hand and adopted a printing technique developed in the previous century: the “poupée” inking method perfected by Johannes Teyler. A fine copy.