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Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1799 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 233 Volume 2 Language: UND.
Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1799 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 245 Volume 1 Language: UND.
Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1799 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 249 Volume 3 Language: UND.
Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1802 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 327 Language: UND.
Date d'édition : 2023
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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1802 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 373 Volume 5 Language: UND.
Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1802 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 377 Volume 2 Language: UND.
Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1802 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 377 Volume 6 Language: UND.
Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1802 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 381 Volume 3 Language: UND.
Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1802 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 379 Volume 4 Language: UND.
Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1802 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 423 Volume 8 Language: UND.
Edité par Fines Mundi GmbH Saarbrücken, 2017
Vendeur : Versandantiquariat Nussbaum, Bernkastel-Kues, RP, Allemagne
Livre
Etat : Wie neu. 650 pages dont 147 planches colorées neu / Modernes Schriftbild / Décrites par Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Membre de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Genève, etc. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2450 36,4 x 25,7 cm, gebundene Ausgabe Faksimile-Reprint der Ausgabe 1799 Padua, Garnery et Renouard.
Date d'édition : 1799
Vendeur : Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Allemagne
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A Paris, chez Garnery, Libr., rue de Seine & Ant. Aug. Renouard, An X (1799), 71 Tafeln (345 x 545 mm) mit den jeweiligen Textseiten; unbeschnittenes Exemplar in original Lieferungsumschlägen. First edition, first issue. A large paper copy, one of 100 copies issued. The rare large folio-edition of the finest work ever published on succulents. The plates of the large paper copies are superior to those of the small-folio-edition. Copies vary enormously as to the number of plates and as Stafleu indicates "one of the nightmares of Botanical bibliography . there are hardly any identical copies". The "Plantes Grasses" is the first book of which all the plates are (with exception of plates 55 & 60 which are by H.J. Redoute) by the 'Raphael of the Succulents' Pierre Joseph Redoute. Dunthorne writes of the work as "a most important work and from the view of technique and pure colour printing Redoute's master piece". The large paper copies normally have 144 plates, covering parts 1-24, with 2 printed titles, one for the first volume and another for the second volume and at the end of each volume an index leaf to the plates. All plates have accompanying text" Following plates are present: 11. Livr. (1801) - 22. Livr. (1803): 61 Crassula obvallata; 62 Aloe rigida; 63 Aloe carinata; 64 Kalanchoe aegyptiaca; 65 Kalanchoe spathulata; 66 Mesembryanthemum hispidum; 67 Crassula glomerata; 68 Aloe linguiformis; 68* Aloe linguiformis verrucosa; 69 Cotyledon hispida (C. mucizonia); 70 Sedum villosum; 71 Mesembryanthemum lingüiforme; 72 Mesembryanthemum pugioniforme; 73 Tillaea muscosa; 74 Bulliarda vaillantii (Tillaea aquatica Lam non L. ; T. vaillantii Willd.); 75 Aloe plicatilis; 76 Cotyledon orbiculata; 77 Euphorbia officinarum; 78 Mesembryanthemum tuberosum; 79 Crassula portulacea; 80 Aloe serra; 81 Aloe brevifolia; 82 Mesembryanthemum tenuifolium; 83 Mesembryanthemum coccineuirrf; 84 Mesembryanthemum violaceum; 85 Aloe soccotrina; 86 Cotyledon tuberculosa; 87 Cotyledon hemisphaerica; 88 Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum; 89 Mesembryanthemum acinaciforme; 90 Cacalia ficoides; 91 Aloe obliqua; 92 Sedum telephium; 93 Sedum dasyphyllum; 94 Mesembryanthemum tortuosum; 95 Mesembryanthemum caninum; 96 Pelargonium tetragonum (Geranium tetragonum); 97 Aloe picta: 98 Aloe umbellata; 99 Aloe mitraeformis (A. mitriformis); 100 Kalanchoe laciniata (Cotyledon laciniata); 101 Sedum aizoon; 102 Mesembryanthemum cordifolium; 103 Rochea falcata; 104 Sempervivum tectorum; 105 Sempervivum montanum; 106 Sempervivum arachnoideum; 107 Sempervivum hirtum; 108 Mesembryanthemum corniculatum; 109 Trianthema monogyna (T. portulacastrum); 110 Sedum populifolium; 111 Cactus mammilaris; 112 Cactus melocactus; 113 Tetragonia echinata (T. herbacea); 114 Tetragonia expansa; 115 Sedum rupestre; 116 Sedum reflexum; 117 Sedum acre (as "17 "in L.); 118 Sedum sexangulare; 119 Sedum saxatile; 120 Sedum atratum; 121 Crassula cordata; 122 Cotyledon hispanica (Cotyledon pistorinia); 123 Portulaca oleracea; 124 Euphorbia lophogona; 125 Sempervivum arboreum Inflorescence; 125* dito. (Branches); 126 Furcroea gigantea (Agave foetida) Flowering plant; 126* dito. Flower details; 127 Cactus flagelliformis (" flagilliformis " on plate); 128 Mesembryanthemum (= crystallinum); 129 Mesembryanthemum brachiatum; 130 Mesembryanthemum striatum.
Edité par Paris: Pierre Didot L'Aine, 1799 [-1804]., 1804
Vendeur : Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
Parts 1-24 in three volumes. Folio (19 6/8 x 13 inches). Letterpress title-page and index in each volume (some browning). 139 (only) colour printed engraved plates after Redoute, interleaved with text by Candolle (some spotting). Modern half tan morocco, gilt (extremities scuffed). Provenance: with the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Edmund Giles Loder, Bart (1849-1920), naturalist, horticulturist, traveller and sportsman, on the front paste-down of each volume; the bookplates of H.C. Drayton on the front free endpaper of each volume. LARGE PAPER ISSUE OF REDOUTE'S FIRST MAJOR WORK AS AN ILLUSTRATOR. One of 100 copies issued. Originally published in fascicles: the first 28 (containing 180 plates) between 1799 and 1805, when an argument between de Candolle and the publisher halted publication. The work was resumed through the interest of the botanist J.-B.-.A. Guillemin (1796-1862), who issued, in quarto edition, another three fascicles (nos.29-31 [with a further 19 plates]). A thirty-second fascicle of five plates remains unpublished. The first major botanical work to rely on colour-printed plates using the technique of stipple-engraving, an art refined by Redoute which he had learned from Francesco Bartolozzi while visiting England with French botanist C.-L. l'Hriter de Brutelle (1746-1800). It has been claimed that Redoute introduced the art to France. Certainly the technique had not been applied to flowers before and it allowed for the first time the artist to reproduce the delicacy of a flower's form and color that had so far eluded the printer's art. "Plantes Grasses." as it is better known, was also the first collaboration between the then young Swiss botanist and Redoute; their magnum opus was "Les Liliacees" (1802-1816). It was inspired by the suggestion of l'Hriter de Brutelle (1746-1800). Whilst Redoute began work on the drawings on vellum, R.-L. Desfontaines "found a young Swiss botanist, Augustin-Pyramus De Candolle., then a student at the garden, ready to undertake the task of writing the descriptions of each species. Desfontaines also found a publisher. Out of this collaboration. developed the now famous "Plantarum historia succulentum", . The original folio edition was struck off in 100 copies. The number of copies printed for the quarto and for other later editions is not known" (Stafleu in Hunt "Redouteana" pp.15-16). Dunthorne 241; Great Flower Books p.53; Hunt Redouteana 6; Nissen BBI 321; Stafleu and Cowan 983.
Edité par Paris: Pierre Didot L'Aine, 1799 [-1804]., 1804
Vendeur : Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840) - CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de, (1778-1841). Plantarum succulentarum historia, ou Histoire naturelle des plantes grasses. Paris: Pierre Didot L'Aine, 1799 [-1804]. Parts 1-24 in 3 volumes. Folio (20 x 12 6/8 inches). Letterpress title-page (creased in volume one, torn with considerable loss in volume III, library stamp removed) and index in each volume (one or two pale marginal stains to volume one). 142 colour printed stipple-engraved plates after Redoute (first plate in volume II loose), interleaved with text by Candolle (some spotting). Contemporary half tan calf, marbled paper boards, gilt (very worn, hinges weak, those on volume III strengthened). LARGE PAPER ISSUE OF REDOUTE'S FIRST MAJOR WORK AS AN ILLUSTRATOR. One of 100 copies issued. Originally published in fascicles: the first 28 (containing 180 plates) between 1799 and 1805, when an argument between de Candolle and the publisher halted publication. The work was resumed through the interest of the botanist J.-B.-.A. Guillemin (1796-1862), who issued, in quarto edition, another three fascicles (nos.29-31 [with a further 19 plates]). A thirty-second fascicle of five plates remains unpublished. The first major botanical work to rely on colour-printed plates using the technique of stipple-engraving, an art refined by Redoute which he had learned from Francesco Bartolozzi while visiting England with French botanist C.-L. l'Hriter de Brutelle (1746-1800). It has been claimed that Redoute introduced the art to France. Certainly the technique had not been applied to flowers before and it allowed for the first time the artist to reproduce the delicacy of a flower's form and color that had so far eluded the printer's art. "Plantes Grasses." as it is better known, was also the first collaboration between the then young Swiss botanist and Redoute; their magnum opus was "Les Liliacees" (1802-1816). It was inspired by the suggestion of l'Hriter de Brutelle (1746-1800). Whilst Redoute began work on the drawings on vellum, R.-L. Desfontaines "found a young Swiss botanist, Augustin-Pyramus De Candolle., then a student at the garden, ready to undertake the task of writing the descriptions of each species. Desfontaines also found a publisher. Out of this collaboration. developed the now famous "Plantarum historia succulentum", . The original folio edition was struck off in 100 copies. The number of copies printed for the quarto and for other later editions is not known" (Stafleu in Hunt "Redouteana" pp.15-16). Dunthorne 241; Great Flower Books p.53; Hunt Redouteana 6; Nissen BBI 321; Stafleu and Cowan 983.
Edité par Impremerie de Didot jeune, Paris, 1802
Vendeur : Arader Books, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. First. WITH THE PLATES BOUND ALPHABETICALLY BY GENUS IN IMITATION OF THE RARE LARGE PAPER ISSUE. Eight volumes. Paris: printed for the author by the Imprimerie de Didot jeune, 1802-1816. Broadsheet folio (20 3/8" x 13 9/16", 518mm x 346mm). [Full collation available.] Collated complete (save the title-page of vol. II and the half-title of vol. III) against Stafleu-Cowan and MacPhail in Redoutéana with 488 plates in toto, of which the 487 "botanical portraits" are stipple-engraved and colored à la poupée and finished by hand (except for pl. 372, which is black as issued). Bound in contemporary speckled and marbled calf. On the boards, a blind roll border surrounding a triple roll border gilt with corner-fleurons gilt. On the spine, six raised bands. Gilt florals in the panels. Title and author gilt to red sheep in the second panel, number gilt to red sheep in the third. Gilt roll to the edges of the boards. All edges of the text-block speckled blue. Bumps to the fore-corners throughout, with a little scuffing generally. Internally, some passages of worming (mostly at and adjacent to the boards), essentially all marginal. Scattered tanning, generally mild but on on a handful of plates moderate. Corrigenda and tables (in vol. VIII) cockled and moderately tanned. A little mild damp-staining to the fore-edge of a handful of plates in vol. V. Lacking the title-pages of voll. II and III; the dedication, usually bound in vol. I, is here bound in vol. II. Utterly unsophisticated and intact, with tissue guards at each plate (occasionally wrinkled or torn). Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) floated above the political changes in France. He went from the patronage of Marie Antoinette -- made desinatteur du Cabinet de la Reine in 1788 -- to the dedication in the first volume (marked "year 10" of the revolutionary calendar) to "Citoyen Chaptal," back to the patronage of the Empress Josephine and on through the Restoration; doubtless had he lived into the Second Republic he would have found great favor. He haunted the gardens first of the Petit Trianon and then superintended those at the chateau of Malmaison, which Josephine had bought. Provided with the raw materials by these extraordinary women, Redouté set about illustrating. The title is somewhat misleading, since the work includes flowers from other families (irises, orchids, etc.), but Redouté's curiosity and ambition can be excused. The work stretched 14 years, with 80 livraisons (fascicles) of 6 plates apiece (the 80th having 12). The originals -- executed in watercolor on vellum, which Arader handled -- were translated into multi-color stipple-engraving; Redouté is said to have introduced the technique to France. Borrowed from Bartolozzi, it allowed faithful reproduction of color, avoiding the vagaries of individual colorists, making the book not only beautiful but reliable. The technique is laborious, and only about two hundred sets were made. Beginning in 1807 there was a parallel issue of the work issued on large paper; Redouté noted that only 18 examples were made up. This issue, which was said to have been colored by Redouté himself, was eventually bound alphabetically by Linnaeus' genera. The owner of the present set, who has left not traces of his identity, must have been aware of this useful arrangement and, not having one of the vanishingly rare large-paper sets, had his set bound aspirationally to match. Hunt, Redoutéana 10; Nissen BBI 1597; Stafleu-Cowan 8747.
Edité par Didot jeune, Paris, 1802
Vendeur : Arader Books, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very good. First. First edition, first state. Eight volumes. Paris: printed for the author by Imprimerie de Didot jeune, 1802 ("An X.")-1816. Folio (21 1/8" x 14", 538mm x 355mm). [Full collation available.] With an etched portrait frontispiece and 486 plates: 484 polychrome stipple-engraved plates, 1 folding polychrome stipple-engraved plate (370-371) and 1 monochrome engraved plate (372). Bound in contemporary red straight-grained morocco (over an earlier, darker red morocco; rebacked). On the boards, a gilt roll border. On the spine, seven panels separated with triple gilt fillets. In the first, third, fifth, sixth and seventh panels, a gilt floral surrounded with gilt ornaments. Title gilt to the second panel. Number gilt to the fourth panel. Fore- and bottom edges of the text-block untrimmed. With tissue guards for each plate. Rebacked. A handful of leaves (text and plates) in various volumes loose and laid in. Upper front fore-corner of vol. III and upper rear fore-corner of vol. IV strongly bumped. Fore-edges of vol. VIII with a bump. General wear to the extremities. Mostly clean internally; voll. VI-VIII with some tanning to the preliminaries and final leaves (pronounced in vol. VII, else mild or moderate). Bookplate of "De crés" on the front paste-downs of voll. I-V. Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) floated above the political changes in France. He went from the patronage of Marie Antoinette -- made desinatteur du Cabinet de la Reine in 1788 -- to the dedication in the first volume (marked "year 10" of the revolutionary calendar) to "Citoyen Chaptal," back to the patronage of the Empress Josephine and on through the Restoration; doubtless had he lived into the Second Republic he would have found great favor. He haunted the gardens first of the Petit Trianon and then superintended those at the chateau of Malmaison in Rueil (just south of Paris), which Josephine had bought. Provided with the raw materials by these extraordinary women, Redouté set about illustrating. The originals -- executed in watercolor on vellum, which Arader handled -- were translated into multi-color stipple-engraving; Redouté is said to have introduced the technique to France. Borrowed from Bartolozzi, it allowed faithful reproduction of color, rather than depending on the vagaries of individual colorists, making the book not only beautiful but reliable. The technique is intensely laborious, and only about two hundred sets were made, with additional large-paper copies finished by Redouté himself. The title is somewhat misleading, since the work includes flowers from other families (irises, orchids, etc.), but Redoutés curiosity and ambition can be excused. The work stretched 14 years, with 80 fascicles of 6 plates apiece (the 80th having 12). Plate 95 (Tradescantia virginica) is here present in its first state (titled Commelina erecta) and Narcissus laetus is present in two states: Langlois's and Bessin's. The bookplate of "De crés" appears contemporary, but no information has been found. The presence of those plates in voll. I-V and the diminished condition of voll. VI-VIII, as well as the rebinding of morocco over morocco suggests a complex history of ownership. Dunthorne 231, Nissen BBI 1597, Stafleu-Cowan 8747.