Collection of seventy-eight water color plates of plants
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[Place of publication not identified]:
[publisher not identified],
[18th century?]
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Description
Color illustrations also on endpapers.
"Manuscript Herbarium of the XVIII century."--Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection shelflist card.
"The flyleaf [cover] bears manuscript note, 'Offered to Dr. [de] Closmadeus [Closmadeuc?], by his most devoted HTE [Ph.?, Philippe?] Salmon'. [all wording in French on actual cover: "Offere au docteur de Closmadeuc par soi [illegible] [illegible] Salmon]".--Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection shelflist card.
"78 water color pls. (recto) with 76 pl. of text on medicinal properties of each plant on verso."--Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection shelflist card.
Language
French
Subject
Botanical illustration -- Early works to 1800.;
Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.;
Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800.;
Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.;
Herbals -- Early works to 1800.;
Plants -- Early works to 1800.;
Manuscripts, French