GOUAN, Antoine. - Nomenclateur Botanique, containing 1°. L'E - Lot 42

GOUAN, Antoine. - Nomenclateur Botanique, containing 1°. L'Explication et traduction française des noms et termes latins, relatifs à toutes les parties de la plante; 2° L'Énumération méthodique des classes, ordres, genres, et de leurs caractères essentiels, d'après le système de Linné; 3° La Connoissance de ce système et la manière de s'en servir. A l'usage des Élèves de l'École de Santé de Montpellier - A Montpellier, chez G. Izar et A. Ricard, an III, [1795]. 132 pp. in-8, 1 h.t. plate; marbled havana half-calf, small ivory vellum corners, smooth spine decorated with gilded fillets and motifs, fawn title page (modern binding in the style of the period). First edition decorated with a hors-texte plate showing botanical details. "No sooner had the School of Health been established in Montpellier, than, reflecting on the absolute impossibility for our students to obtain books on botany, I thought it my duty to give them, at the very least, a kind of Dictionary that would facilitate their study of this science, and replace, for the time being, the books of which they are deprived...." (Avertissement). A fine copy of this unusual work. (Pritzel, Thesaurus literaturæ botanicæ, ed. I, 3798).