PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ANITA PEEK GILGER, M.D.
GARIDEL, Pierre Joseph (1658-1737). Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix, et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence. Aix: Joseph David, 1715.
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GARIDEL, Pierre Joseph (1658-1737). Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix, et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence. Aix: Joseph David, 1715.
2o (354 x 231 mm). Engraved frontispiece after A. Bouisson and 100 engraved plates by and after Honoré Blanc, all with engraved captions. (Some worming at the gutter margin towards beginning, page number punched through on A2, some occasional pale spotting to plates and text.) 18th-century red half goatskin, marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered and -decorated, marbled edges (endpapers renewed, some general wear and soiling).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (re-issued with cancel title, adding Paris to imprint, in 1719). Pierre-Joseph Garidel was a medical doctor and Royal Professor of Anatomy at the University of Aix-en-Provence. He is known principally for the publication of this book: the first systematic botany of Provence. It contains the first detailed description of Provençal grapes & wines. Hunt 434; Nissen BBI 685; Pritzel 3199.
2o (354 x 231 mm). Engraved frontispiece after A. Bouisson and 100 engraved plates by and after Honoré Blanc, all with engraved captions. (Some worming at the gutter margin towards beginning, page number punched through on A2, some occasional pale spotting to plates and text.) 18th-century red half goatskin, marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered and -decorated, marbled edges (endpapers renewed, some general wear and soiling).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (re-issued with cancel title, adding Paris to imprint, in 1719). Pierre-Joseph Garidel was a medical doctor and Royal Professor of Anatomy at the University of Aix-en-Provence. He is known principally for the publication of this book: the first systematic botany of Provence. It contains the first detailed description of Provençal grapes & wines. Hunt 434; Nissen BBI 685; Pritzel 3199.