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4 parts in one volume, folio. (20 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches). (4) 36pp., 35 plain engraved plates (including 15 bis), of which 22 are by Redouté and 10 are by Sowerby. Contemporary blue paper boards, rebacked with brown calf preserving original spine. L'Heritier, a wealthy French nobleman and botanist, published a number of important specimen books in the 1780's, illustrating exotic plants found in Europe. In the process he launched the career of Redouté by publishing his illustrations and by introducing him to the highest levels of Parisian society. In addition he instructed Redouté in plant anatomy, the techniques of dissection, and made his large collection of books and specimens available to the young artist. While L'Heritier advised Redouté in the appropriate details necessary for correct botanical drawings, the Dutch flower painter, Gerrit van Spaendonck, encouraged the young artist's talents by teaching him the techniques for capturing variations in tone and color. The Sertum Anglicum, or English Garland of Flowers, was an attempt to describe and illustrate some of the rare exotics growing at Kew Garden. When L'Heritier visited London in 1786, Redouté joined him there, and they worked on the volume together (Hunt). Thirty-one of the plates illustrated their respective species for the first time, while seven contain the only known illustration of the species. Dunthorne 248; Great Flower Books (1990), p. 113; McGill/Hunt 692; Nissen BBI 1189; Pritzel 5270; Stafleu & Cowen 4492.

Six parts in one volume, folio (20 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.; 51.3 x 33.7 cm). Letterpress title and 6 section titles, 91 engraved plates (2 folding) by Juillet, Milsan, Hubert, Maleuvre and others after Pierre-Joseph Redouté (54) and others, plates numbered 1 to 84 with 7 bis plates. CONDITION/BINDING: Mostly marginal dampstaining to top of plates, a few leaves with light spotting. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco; rebacked to style. (65V2A) FIRST EDITION OF L'HERITIER'S FIRST BOTANICAL PUBLICATION WITH ENGRAVINGS: "ONE OF THE MORE DELIGHTFUL FLOWER BOOKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. This book is splendid in its spacious descriptions, its charming exotic plates, its implications for taxonomic history; and fascinating as an imposing piece of eighteenth-century bookmaking" (Hunt). The six fascicles were issued with pagination but leaves unsigned. Of the 91 plates, showing such extraordinary fidelity to detail, 54 were contributed by Redouté, 25 by Fréret, 4 by Fossier, while the remainder are after Prévost, Jossignoy, Aubriet, Bruguihre, and Sowerby. Although he never completed the work for which at least 120 plates were projected, L'Héritier's main purpose was "to describe, in most cases portray, and classify according to the Linnean system plants that were either new or had gone largely unnoticed." A jurist and amateur botanist, he allowed Redouté access to his magnificent library, and it is from L'Héritier, as Johnston says, that Redouté "learned the finer points of scientific botanic plate illustration." This copy collates as the Hunt copy with the following exceptions: plate 20 is captioned "Urtica arborea" rather than "Parietaria arborea," plate 45 is after Redouté rather than Fréret, and plates 63, 73, and 74 have slight variations in spelling (63: "arborea rather than "arboretum," and 73-74: "Stuartia" rather than "Stewartia." PROVENANCE: O Mundo do Libro (bookseller's ticket on upper pastedown); Christie's New York, 4 December 2018, lot 29. REFERENCES: Brunet III:1043; G. Bucheim, "A Bibliographical Account of L'Héritier's 'Stirpes novae' " in Huntia, vol. 2 (15 October 1965) 29-58; Cleveland Collections 555; Dunthorne 246; Great Flower Books, p.64; Hunt 673; Nissen BBI 1190; Pritzel 5268; Redouté 1; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 4484.