DODART, DENIS [and NICOLAS ROBERT]. Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes. Paris: Imprimerie royale, (1675-) 1676. Large folio, 563 x 435 mm., old quarter calf, cloth sides, dampstained, mostly in the margins, particularly towards the back of the volume. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece by Goyton after Sebastien le Clerc, 3 engraved vignettes, 39 engraved plates by Nicolas Robert and Abraham Bosse after Robert's drawings. [With:] BROSSE, GUY DE LA. La Perspective horizontale du jardin royale des plantes medicinales estably a Paris par Louis le juste roy de France et de Navarre....dediée a haute et puisst. Signr. Mre. Claude Boulthiler...par Guy de la Brosse intendent de ce jardin...1641. Engraved horizonal perspective plan. Sheet measures: 535 x 745 mm., slight dampstain, two vertical creases, tiny hole at right side. Designed and engraved by Abraham Bosse (engraved signature: "Designé et gravé par ABosse en l'année 1641"). Bound in following title leaf of the preceding.

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DODART, DENIS [and NICOLAS ROBERT]. Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes. Paris: Imprimerie royale, (1675-) 1676. Large folio, 563 x 435 mm., old quarter calf, cloth sides, dampstained, mostly in the margins, particularly towards the back of the volume. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece by Goyton after Sebastien le Clerc, 3 engraved vignettes, 39 engraved plates by Nicolas Robert and Abraham Bosse after Robert's drawings. [With:] BROSSE, GUY DE LA. La Perspective horizontale du jardin royale des plantes medicinales estably a Paris par Louis le juste roy de France et de Navarre....dediée a haute et puisst. Signr. Mre. Claude Boulthiler...par Guy de la Brosse intendent de ce jardin...1641. Engraved horizonal perspective plan. Sheet measures: 535 x 745 mm., slight dampstain, two vertical creases, tiny hole at right side. Designed and engraved by Abraham Bosse (engraved signature: "Designé et gravé par ABosse en l'année 1641"). Bound in following title leaf of the preceding.

Hunt 343 ("one of the great books in the history of botanical illustration"); Nissen BBI 502; Pritzel 2341.

Provenance: Kenneth K. Mackenzie; Horticultural Society of New York, bookplate and blindstamp.

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