GREW, NEHEMIAH. Anatomie des Plantes qui Contient Une Description exacte ed leurs parties 7 de leurs usages... Traduite de L'Anglois de Monsieur Grew de la Societé Royale. Paris : Lambert Roulland, 1675.
First French edition. 8vo (123 x 83 mm) Contemporary motled calf with raised bands on spine and floral decoration in gilt in panels. Title in gilt. All edges of text in red. Worm holes in lower panels that extend into gutter of text block that only affects loss of part of a letter. Engraved frontispiece [22] 1-215 [1] [12]pp.
Fourteen (14) engraved plates inserted through text on unnumbered leaves; plates that contain figures 3, 4, 5, 14 and figures 6, 7, 9, 11 are repeated and inserted into the text place appropriate for each figure. Engraved head-pieces including emblematic of botany for dedicatory Epistle, and three scenes as chapter headings: two men examining plants, two gardeners, two botanists with a microscope and nine engraved cul-de-lamps of varying size. Text and engravings clean and bright. (LeFanu, Nehemiah Grew, 3)
$US1600
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