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La Botanique de J. J. Rousseau, ornée de soixante-cinq planches, imprimées en couleurs d'après les peintures de P. J. Redouté
Edité par L. É. Herhan for Delachaussée and Garnery, Paris, 1805
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Hardcover. Etat : Very good. First. First edition, first issue. Paris: L. É. Herhan for Delachaussée and Garnery, 1805. Folio (19 1/8" x 13 3/16", 484mm x 334mm): 2 binder's blanks, [pi]2 a2 b1 1-312, 2 binder's blanks [$1 signed]. 67 leaves, pp. i-v (half-title, printer, title, blank, explanation of the plates) vi-x, 1 2-122, [2] (2pp. table). With 65 engraved plates printed in color à la poupée. Bound in later red morocco, paneled in gilt and blind. On the spine, five raised bands. Illustrator gilt to the third panel, title gilt to fifth, date gilt to the tail. Gilt dashed to the edges of the boards, continuing around to the inside dentelle. Red end-papers. All edges of the text-block gilt. Rubbed at the extremities. Quite foxed and tanned throughout, albeit diminished at the plates. Roughly-repaired losses to the upper edges of [pi]2 (title-leaf) and 312 (the table). Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a philosopher in the true Greek sense: a general seeker of wisdom. He is of course most studied for his political philosophy, but his work on pedagogy, Emile, is perhaps even more influential. His pedagogical essays are continuous with his broader philosophical stance, and owe a great debt to nature and natural history in particular. Emile emphasizes the importance of an understanding about the natural world, both for its complexity and its simplicity. Rousseau was deeply curious about the world of plants (an engraving by Meyer of Rousseau "herborisant" or herbalizing illustrates this beautifully), and wrote the present treatise in the form of letters to a woman teaching her daughters botany. This epistolary structure is a very XVIIIc mode, drawing ultimately on Cicero. Pierre-Josephe Redouté (1759-1840) was a rather more professional botanist. He came into the favor of the Empress Josephine in particular, and illustrated the roses, irises and lilies (inter alia) in her gardens at Malmaison. He is widely esteemed as the greatest of all flower-painters, and in 1805 his powers were at their apex. It is therefore unsurprising that it is his name and not the great Swiss philosopher's that has been applied to the spine of the volume. The present item is the first state of the first edition, with pl. 54 mis-numbered "62" and without printed titles. Dunthorne 252, Nissen BBI 1688; Pritzel 7824; Sitwell, Great Flower Books p. 134; Stafleu-Cowan 9688.
