ROQUES, Joseph. - Plantes usuelles, indigènes et exotiques, - Lot 88

ROQUES, Joseph. - Plantes usuelles, indigènes et exotiques, dessinées et coloriées d'après nature, avec la description de leurs caractères distinctifs et de leurs propriétés médicales.- A Paris, chez l'auteur et chez Madame Veuve Hocquart, 1807-1808.- 2 volumes in-4 de (2) ff., VIII, 266 pp. 72 pl. h.t. grav. et color. pour le tome 1 ;(2) ff., 278 pp. 1 f. errata, 61 plates engraved and colored for volume 2; marbled basane, smooth spines richly decorated with grotesque fillets, boxes and star motifs, fawn-colored title-pieces, brown morocco escutcheon, fillets on the edges (Binding of the period). First edition dedicated to Monsieur de Solages, it is illustrated with a total of 133 engraved and finely hand-colored plates, divided as follows: a colored faux-title showing a plant garland; 10 colored plates showing 216 botanical figures for the "Précis des diverses parties extérieures des végétaux" with tables and analyses of the methods of Tournefort, Linné and Jussieu; and 122 colored plates composed of 4 figures showing the representation of 488 common, indigenous and exotic flowers. A text giving the history, description and medicinal virtues of the plants accompanies each plate. The work ends with a table based on Jussieu's natural method and an alphabetical table. A pleasant copy in an elegant "à la grotesque" binding strictly of the period, with a few minor imperfections. (Pritzel, Thesaurus literaturae botanicae, 7757- Nissen, Die botanische Buchillustration, 1674- Plesch, Mille et un livres botaniques, p. 386).