THORY, CLAUDE ANTOINE. Rosa Redoutea, seu Descriptio novae speciaei generis Rosae, dicata Petro Josepho Redouté, Paris: Hérissant Le Doux, 1817. 8vo, 203 x 126 mm. contemporary forest-green paper boards (textured to resemble straight-grained morocco) gilt, covers outlined with a delicate floral interlace roll, rounded paper spine gilt-lettered, g.e., worn at top and bottom of spine (exposing calf-backed boards), but otherwise in good condition for a volume of this fragility. FIRST EDITION. Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of C.A. Thory, 8-page text describing the species, two full-page aquatint plates of the "Rosa Redutea glauca" (in two states: uncolored, and delicately hand-colored), bound with an 8-page "Extrait de la Bibliotheque Universelle. Tome IV. April 1817," comprising a review of the Thory/Redouté's collaboration, Les Roses, which began publication in 1817. Stafleu & Cowan 14.293 (not recording the plate in both states).