Recueil des plantes les plus usuelles peintes d’apres nature

Digital Facsimiles:

t. 3t. 4t. 5t. 6 T. 7 T. 8 T. 9 T. 10 T. 11 T. 12 Index

v. : col. ill. ; 38 cm.

Text handwritten in ink.

Dates on half-title pages.

Volumes consist of a page with full-page color illustration of plant with explanatory text on opposite page; text chiefly within border. Illustrations in watercolor and gouache.

Most plants identifed from text at head of page opposite from illustration page; some illustrations lack plant name at head of text.

On half-title page in a cartouche: Child? carpenter in a country landscape. Motto: Tempore & Industria.

Some illustrated pages include more than one illustration. Index volume does not have a half-title page or a title page; some pages have only table outlines in ink with no illustrations in table.

Includes indexes.

English, French, Latin

Botanical illustration -- France -- Early works to 1800.; Botanical illustration -- France -- Early works to 1800 -- Pictorial works.; Botanical illustration -- Early works to 1800.; Botanical illustration -- Early works to 1800 -- Pictorial works.; Plants -- Analysis -- Early works to 1800.; Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.; Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.