DUPUIS, A & REVEIL, O. - Flore médicale usuelle et indus - Lot 35

DUPUIS, A & REVEIL, O. - Flore médicale usuelle et industrielle du XIXè siècle donnant la description, la culture, la composition chimique, les propriétés curatives ou dangereuses, les usages économiques et industriels des plantes - Paris, Abel Pilon et cie, sans date [1870] - 6 volumes in-4 (3 volumes of text & 3 atlases), 150 plates, engraved and coloured; half red basane, smooth spines, gilt titles and tomaisons (modern binding). First edition published in the "Règne végétal" collection, it is accompanied by three atlases featuring 150 finely colored and gummed plates after drawings by Maubert and Constant, engraved by Lebrun, Noël and Debray. A good, well-bound copy, with all plates mounted on tabs. Occasional heavy foxing, marginal wetness on the very last pages of the third atlas. (Nissen, Die botanische Buchillustration, 568 - Pritzel, Thesaurus literaturae botanicae, 2545).