Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes / dressez par M. Dodart de l'Academie royale des sciences, docteur de medecine de la Faculté de Paris

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Notes: Engraved title vignette (arms of arms of Louis XIV); engraved head-piece; engraved pictorial initial.; The "Descriptions" (pages 53-131) comprise 39 full page engravings by Nicolas Robert and Abraham Bosse with explanatory letter-press on opposite pages.; Colophon reads: A Paris : De l'Imprimerie royale, par Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, directeur de la dite imprimerie, M.DC.LXXV.; Errata: page 131.; The frontispiece is signed: S. Le Clerc in. et f. It depicts a meeting of the Académie royale des sciences at the royal library at Versailles.; Hunt botanical cat. 343; Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Auflage), 502; Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 84; Also available online.; SCDIRB copy 39088006024798 has bookplate: Burndy Library, gift of Barbara D. Dibner; Herald of Science no. 84.; SCDIRB copy has a gilt-stamped red morocco leather binding with all edges gilt. The covers have gilt-stamped borders in a Greek key design, and an armorial device with the motto of the Order of the Garter ("Honi soit qui mal y pense"), identified in pencil on the front free endpaper as the arms of the Duke of Newcastle, possibly Henry Fiennes Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, who became a Knight of the Garter in 1752.; Elecresource
Contents: Project de l'histoire des plantes -- Descriptions de quelques plantes nouvelles

Physical description: [4], 131, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 56 cm (fol.)