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IMPORTANT BOTANICAL BOOKS FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN
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.
2° (349 x 239 mm). Engraved frontispiece after A. Bouisson and 100 engraved plates by and after Honoré Blanc (some with hand-coloring), all with engraved captions. (Some occasional pale mostly marginal spotting and staining.) 18th-century mottled calf (rebacked, old spine laid down, chipping to spine panel, light wear to edges). Provenance: Cesar Loudet (owner’s name on title); early German ink shoulder notes and neat captions to plates, manuscript index at end; Jesuit Society (small ink stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION, second 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. Cleveland Collections 336; Hunt 434; Nissen BBI 685; Pritzel 3199.
2° (349 x 239 mm). Engraved frontispiece after A. Bouisson and 100 engraved plates by and after Honoré Blanc (some with hand-coloring), all with engraved captions. (Some occasional pale mostly marginal spotting and staining.) 18th-century mottled calf (rebacked, old spine laid down, chipping to spine panel, light wear to edges). Provenance: Cesar Loudet (owner’s name on title); early German ink shoulder notes and neat captions to plates, manuscript index at end; Jesuit Society (small ink stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION, second 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. Cleveland Collections 336; Hunt 434; Nissen BBI 685; Pritzel 3199.