Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes
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Contributors |
Dodart, Denis, 1634-1707.
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Publication |
Paris:
Imprimerie Royale,
M. DC. LXXVI. [1676]
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Description
[5] leaves, 131 p. : ill., front. ; 56 cm.
Title vignette, engraved vignettes and initials.
Second part (p. 53-131) comprises 39 full-page engravings by Nicolas Robert and Abraham Bosse, with explanatory letterpress on opposite pages.
Colophon: A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, par Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy ... M. DC. LXXV. [1675]
This book represents the first part of a publication begun by the Académie des sciences; the bulk of the plates were then printed in 1701 under the title Recueil de plantes gravées par ordre du Roi Louis XIV, and later in 1788, with modifications.
References: Hunt, R.M.M. Bot. books, 343.
References: Nissen, C. Die botanische Buchillustration. 502.
References: Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus lit. botanicae 2341.
Physical Description
Language
French
Subject
Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.