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Botanica - Alberi - Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis
La Physique des Arbres; which is the traité of the Anatomy of Plants and of the Vegetable Economy, 1758
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Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1758. In 4th. 2 vols. Headpieces and finials richly figured in copperplate, 50 magnificent tables of anatomy and physiology of trees engraved on copper and folded out of text, binding in blond marbled calfskin, triple gold fillet frame on the plates, red cuts, peeling.
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Original edition of this exceptional illustrated eighteenth-century botanist, 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 Gatinais. Duhamel de Monceau (Paris, 1700 - 1781), agronomist and Inspector General of the Navy, was a member of the Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Medicine. Nissen, B.B.I., 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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