VAILLANT, SEBASTIEN and CLAUDE AUBRIET. Botanicon parisiense, ou denombrement par ordre alphabetique des plantes, qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris. Leiden and Amsterdam: J.& H. Verbeek and B. Lakeman, 1727. Folio, 430 x 270 mm., old quarter vellum and marbled boards, uncut, plate 29 slightly torn, browned at end of volume. FIRST EDITION. Engraved portrait by Houbraken, folding engraved map of the archdiocese of Paris and 33 engraved plates of plants and plant details by J. Wandelaar afer Claude Aubriet; half-title, title printed in red and black. Hunt 470 ("Sebastien Vaillant is honored in France as the man wo first understood the nature of sex in plants. He was a student of Tournefort's and considerably influenced Linnaeus."); Nissen BBI 2033. Robert de Belder -- DODART DENIS. Memories pouer servir a l'histoire des plantes...avec les descriptions de quleques arbres et de quelques plantes de Malaque par le Pére de Beze, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Amsterdam and Leipzig: Arkstee & Merkus 1758. 4to, 263 x 220 mm., modern half cloth, preserving contemporary blue paper wrappers, uncut, plate 31 torn and repaired, some browing of text and plates. Third Edition. 38 folding engraved plates. Nissen BBI 502; Pritzel 2341. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (2)

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VAILLANT, SEBASTIEN and CLAUDE AUBRIET. Botanicon parisiense, ou denombrement par ordre alphabetique des plantes, qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris. Leiden and Amsterdam: J.& H. Verbeek and B. Lakeman, 1727. Folio, 430 x 270 mm., old quarter vellum and marbled boards, uncut, plate 29 slightly torn, browned at end of volume. FIRST EDITION. Engraved portrait by Houbraken, folding engraved map of the archdiocese of Paris and 33 engraved plates of plants and plant details by J. Wandelaar afer Claude Aubriet; half-title, title printed in red and black. Hunt 470 ("Sebastien Vaillant is honored in France as the man wo first understood the nature of sex in plants. He was a student of Tournefort's and considerably influenced Linnaeus."); Nissen BBI 2033. Robert de Belder -- DODART DENIS. Memories pouer servir a l'histoire des plantes...avec les descriptions de quleques arbres et de quelques plantes de Malaque par le Pére de Beze, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Amsterdam and Leipzig: Arkstee & Merkus 1758. 4to, 263 x 220 mm., modern half cloth, preserving contemporary blue paper wrappers, uncut, plate 31 torn and repaired, some browing of text and plates. Third Edition. 38 folding engraved plates. Nissen BBI 502; Pritzel 2341. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (2)

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