Lot no. 46
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[Botany]. BULLIARD (Jean-Baptiste-François dit Pierre). Flora parisiensis, or descriptions and figures of the plants growing around Paris with the different names, classes, orders and genera appropriate to them, arranged according to the sexual method of M. Linné, their characteristic parts, harbours, properties, virtues and doses for use in medicine, according to the botanical demonstrations given at the Jardin du Roy. Paris, Didot le Jeune, 1780 - 1783. 2 volumes in-8 (volumes V and VI alone out of VI), romantic half calf (Roullin bookbinder in Paris). Title-piece of volume VI missing.
218 coloured plates with as many explanatory leaves, drawn and engraved by P. Bulliard.
Volume V: 115 plates (plates 421 to 536).
Volume VI: 103 plates (plates 537 to 640) followed by the Nouvelle table du Flora Parisiensis (16 pp) and the Table françoise ( 52 pp.).
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