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POITEAU, Pierre-Antoine (1766-1854). Pomologie Française. Recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. Paris: Paul Renouard for Langlois & Leclercq, 1846.
4 volumes, 2° (400 x 290mm). 289 (of 420) engraved plates by Poiteau and Turpin, printed in colours and finished by hand by Bouquet, Leuleu, Gabriel, Massard, Bocourt, Legrand, Allais, Rodrigue and others, 3 plain plates. (Spotting, a few marginal splits.) Contemporary red quarter roan over red cloth boards preserving original printed wrappers, upper covers stamped in gilt (worn, a few original printed wrappers particularly at beginning of volumes torn, split and defective).
VERY RARE WORK ON POMOLOGY WITH SPLENDID HAND-COLOURED PLATES. Duhamel du Monceau’s ambitious work Traité des arbres fruitiers first appeared in 1768 in two quarto volumes with 180 plates. This was republished in folio format between 1807-1835 in 6 volumes, graced with magnificent hand-coloured plates illustrated by Poiteau and P.J.F. Turpin. These men met while in the service of France in Haiti, and bonded over their shared enthusiasm for botany. Poiteau was the more educated; Turpin, from a poorer background, was the more gifted artist, and became ‘the dominant force’ (Blunt p.208). The present lot is the 1846 re-issue of the folio work with a new introduction, reusing the plates, but with Turpin’s name erased, ‘to get even’ (Janson p.297). W. Blunt and W. Stearn, The Art of Botanical Illustration, p.208; Bradley III, p.84 (calling erroneously for 431 plates); H.F. Janson, Pomona’s Harvest, p.297 & 401; Nissen BBI 1554; Sitwell p.93 (note); cf. Stafleu & Cowan 1548.
4 volumes, 2° (400 x 290mm). 289 (of 420) engraved plates by Poiteau and Turpin, printed in colours and finished by hand by Bouquet, Leuleu, Gabriel, Massard, Bocourt, Legrand, Allais, Rodrigue and others, 3 plain plates. (Spotting, a few marginal splits.) Contemporary red quarter roan over red cloth boards preserving original printed wrappers, upper covers stamped in gilt (worn, a few original printed wrappers particularly at beginning of volumes torn, split and defective).
VERY RARE WORK ON POMOLOGY WITH SPLENDID HAND-COLOURED PLATES. Duhamel du Monceau’s ambitious work Traité des arbres fruitiers first appeared in 1768 in two quarto volumes with 180 plates. This was republished in folio format between 1807-1835 in 6 volumes, graced with magnificent hand-coloured plates illustrated by Poiteau and P.J.F. Turpin. These men met while in the service of France in Haiti, and bonded over their shared enthusiasm for botany. Poiteau was the more educated; Turpin, from a poorer background, was the more gifted artist, and became ‘the dominant force’ (Blunt p.208). The present lot is the 1846 re-issue of the folio work with a new introduction, reusing the plates, but with Turpin’s name erased, ‘to get even’ (Janson p.297). W. Blunt and W. Stearn, The Art of Botanical Illustration, p.208; Bradley III, p.84 (calling erroneously for 431 plates); H.F. Janson, Pomona’s Harvest, p.297 & 401; Nissen BBI 1554; Sitwell p.93 (note); cf. Stafleu & Cowan 1548.
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