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Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1758. In 4th. 2 vols. Headpieces and tailpieces richly illustrated in chalcography, 50 magnificent tables of anatomy and physiology of trees engraved on copper and folded outside the text, binding in marbled blond calfskin, on the plates a triple fillet frame in gold, red cuts, peelings.
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Original edition of this exceptional eighteenth-century botanical illustration, one of the most important works of the eighteenth century organically dedicated to dendrology. The work summarizes the results of 20 years of personal research carried out by Duhamel de Monceau in the Gatinais. Duhamel de Monceau (Paris, 1700 - 1781), agronomist and Inspector General of the Navy, was a member of the Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Society of Medicine. Nissen, BBI, 542. Pritzel, 2468. K.F.W. Jessen, Botanik der Gegenwart und Vorzeit, n. 329. DSB, IV, 224. Graesse, II, 444. Brunet, Table, 4845. Quérard, II, 655. Poggendorff, I, 618.
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