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434 - POIRET, Jean-Louis-Marie *Lessons in Flora*. A Comprehensive Course in Botany, an Explanation of All Systems, and an Introduction to the Study of Plants [...]. Followed by a botanical illustration collection comprising fifty-six colored plates featuring nearly a thousand specimens by P.J.F. Turpin. Book in brand-new condition. Volume One [– Three]. Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1819–1820; 3 parts in 2 vols., 8vo; 66 plates (text undated, occasional spotting or toning). Contemporary marbled sheepskin, gilt-ornamented flat spines (slightly rubbed). First edition of this botanical treatise by the French naturalist and traveler Poiret (1755–1834), followed by an essay by the painter Pierre-Jean-François Turpin (1775–1840). Illustrated with 66 engraved plates: 2 fold-outs (including the very large “Organographie végétale”) and 64 hand-colored plates (numbered 1–56 and 8 bis). Marginal annotations in an old hand throughout. Ref. Nissen (BBI) 349. - Pritzel 7234. - Stafleu & Cowan 8115.
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POIRET, Jean-Louis-Marie *Lessons in Flora*. A Comprehensive Course in Botany, an Explanation of All Systems, and an Introduction to the Study of Plants [...]. Followed by a botanical illustration collection comprising fifty-six colored plates featuring nearly a thousand specimens by P.J.F. Turpin. Book in brand-new condition. Volume One [– Three]. Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1819–1820; 3 parts in 2 vols., 8vo; 66 plates (text undated, occasional spotting or toning). Contemporary marbled sheepskin, gilt-ornamented flat spines (slightly rubbed). First edition of this botanical treatise by the French naturalist and traveler Poiret (1755–1834), followed by an essay by the painter Pierre-Jean-François Turpin (1775–1840). Illustrated with 66 engraved plates: 2 fold-outs (including the very large “Organographie végétale”) and 64 hand-colored plates (numbered 1–56 and 8 bis). Marginal annotations in an old hand throughout. Ref. Nissen (BBI) 349. - Pritzel 7234. - Stafleu & Cowan 8115.
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