BUC'HOZ, Pierre Joseph. Les dons merveilleux et diversement coloris de la nature dans le rgne vgtal, ou collection de plantes precieusement coloris, pour servir l'intelligence de l'histoire gnrale et oeconomique des 3 regnes, et formant suite a la collections de fleurs curieuses et enlumines, qu'on cultive tant les jardins de la chine, que dans ceux de l'europe. Paris: chez l'auteur, [1779-83]. Second vol. (only). 2 o. Engraved title and 100 (of 200) engraved hand-colored plates (minor foxing or offsetting to a few plates, light soiling to title). Contemporary quarter-calf and boards, (lacks backstrip, some dust soiling, rubbing to edges). FIRST EDITION. "One of the more important works of the copious Pierre Joseph Buc'hoz" (Hunt). Although he is held in low esteem by the scientific botanists, due to his persistence in re-using plates with different attributions, his decorative and artistic sense places him high in the ranks of eighteenth-century flower book authors. Some copies have title-pages dated 1779-1783. Dunthorne 61; Great Flower Books, p. 52; Hunt 656; Nissen BBI 283; Pritzel 1327.
BUC'HOZ, Pierre Joseph. Les dons merveilleux et diversement coloris de la nature dans le rgne vgtal, ou collection de plantes precieusement coloris, pour servir l'intelligence de l'histoire gnrale et oeconomique des 3 regnes, et formant suite a la collections de fleurs curieuses et enlumines, qu'on cultive tant les jardins de la chine, que dans ceux de l'europe. Paris: chez l'auteur, [1779-83]. Second vol. (only). 2 o. Engraved title and 100 (of 200) engraved hand-colored plates (minor foxing or offsetting to a few plates, light soiling to title). Contemporary quarter-calf and boards, (lacks backstrip, some dust soiling, rubbing to edges). FIRST EDITION. "One of the more important works of the copious Pierre Joseph Buc'hoz" (Hunt). Although he is held in low esteem by the scientific botanists, due to his persistence in re-using plates with different attributions, his decorative and artistic sense places him high in the ranks of eighteenth-century flower book authors. Some copies have title-pages dated 1779-1783. Dunthorne 61; Great Flower Books, p. 52; Hunt 656; Nissen BBI 283; Pritzel 1327.
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