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JAUME SAINTE-HILAIRE, Jean Henri (1772-1845). Plantes de la France, décrites et peintes d'après nature. Paris: printed by Didot le jeune (vols.I-II, IX-X); Le Normant (vols.III-IV); P. Didot l'aîné (vols.V-VI); Firmin Didot père et fils (vol.VII); Firmin Didot (vol.VIII) for the Author, 1822-1819-1822. 10 volumes, 4° (270 x 213mm). Wove paper. 10 lithographed portrait frontispieces of botanists after Alexis Noel by Langlumé, 999 (of 1000) STIPPLE-ENGRAVED PLATES PRINTED IN COLOURS AND FINISHED BY HAND by Dubreuil and Veron after Sainte-Hilaire. (Lacking plate number 714 "Luzerne cultivée", text browned and spotted, marginal in the main, but occasionally heavy and affecting the plates.) Contemporary red half morocco gilt, spines in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in three, the top and bottom compartments with the arms and crowned monogram respectively of LOUIS-PHILIPPE, DUC D'ORLEANS (Damage to upper covers of vols. V and IX, severe damage to upper cover of vol. X). Provenance : Louis-Philippe I, King of France (1773-1850, bindings, library stamps on titles 'Duc d'Orleans' and 'Bibliothèque du Roi (Neuilly)'). THE KING OF FRANCE'S COPY OF THE LARGE PAPER ISSUE. FIRST EDITIONS of vols. V - X, a re-issue of vols. I - IV. The literature records two issues (octavo on "papier jésus" and the deluxe quarto on "papier vélin"). Nissen BBI 579 ('1000 Kupf. (meist Farbdruck).'). Stafleu TL2 3306 ('The 1000 plates are colour-printed stipple-engravings (some "termin©es au pinceau")'); Dunthorne 159 ('delicate plates of pure colour printing, with no retouching by hand'); Great Flower Books p.61. (10)