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<dl><dd>Binding: mottled calf; gilt stamped coat of arms of Louis XIV centered at front and rear boards; gilt triple fillets along edges of boards; spine with 6 raised bands and armorial gilt monograms in compartments; page edges sprinkled red. Bookplate of Dr. Maurice Villaret centered on front pastedown; book label of D. Henry in upper left hand corner</dd>
<dd>Gift of Tania Norris</dd>
<dd>Engraved title vignette (arms of arms of Louis XIV); engraved head-piece; engraved pictorial initial</dd>
<dd>The "Descriptions" (pages 53-131) comprise 39 full page engravings by Nicolas Robert and Abraham Bosse with explanatory letter-press on opposite pages</dd>
<dd>Colophon reads: A Paris : De l'Imprimerie royale, par Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, directeur de la dite imprimerie, M.DC.LXXV</dd>
<dd>Errata: page 131</dd>
<dd>The frontispiece is signed: S. Le Clerc in. et f. It depicts a meeting of the Académie royale des sciences at the royal library at Versailles</dd>
<dd>Project de l'histoire des plantes -- Descriptions de quelques plantes nouvelles</dd>
<dd>Hunt botanical cat</dd>
<dd>Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.)</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Botany; Medicinal plants; Plantkunde; Plantes; Plantes médicinales; Botanique; Botánica; Botany; Botany Pre-Linnean works</div>
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<dl><dd>Dodart, Denis, 1634-1707, author</dd>
<dd>Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1684, engraver</dd>
<dd>Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676, engraver</dd>
<dd>Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714, engraver, illustrator</dd>
<dd>Mabre-Cramoisy, Sébastien, printer</dd>
<dd>Imprimerie royale (France), printer</dd></dl></div>
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