Lot
49
REDOUTÉ, PIERRE JOSEPH and CHARLES ANTOINE THORY. Les Roses. Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke 1824. 40 livraisons bound in one volume, 8vo, 222 x 158 mm. (8¾ x 6 3/16 in.), nineteenth-century French red half morocco gilt, each cover inset with a small colored cloth embroidery of flowers, g.e., spine extremities and corners slightly worn, portrait frontispiece nearly detached, some text leaves foxed and spreading to plates, some faint offsetting from text to plates. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, engraved portrait by Pradier after Gerard and 160 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colors and finished by hand; half-title, 4-page prospectus bound following title-leaf and 4-page list of ''variétés et sous-variétés'' bound following the 3e Livraison. Nissen BBI 1599; Stafleu TL-2 8749.
Price realised
USD 14,950
Estimate
USD 8,000 - USD 12,000
REDOUTÉ, PIERRE JOSEPH and CHARLES ANTOINE THORY. Les Roses. Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke 1824. 40 livraisons bound in one volume, 8vo, 222 x 158 mm. (8¾ x 6 3/16 in.), nineteenth-century French red half morocco gilt, each cover inset with a small colored cloth embroidery of flowers, g.e., spine extremities and corners slightly worn, portrait frontispiece nearly detached, some text leaves foxed and spreading to plates, some faint offsetting from text to plates. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, engraved portrait by Pradier after Gerard and 160 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colors and finished by hand; half-title, 4-page prospectus bound following title-leaf and 4-page list of "variétés et sous-variétés" bound following the 3e Livraison. Nissen BBI 1599; Stafleu TL-2 8749.