Botany Prints
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Fauché, B.
Histoire naturelle, botanique.
[France, unpublished, ca. 1850]. Folio (39.8 x 28.8 cm). Title page with polychrome title and vignette, heightened with gold; 15 tissue-guarded plates with watercolour images of fungi (1) and flowering plants with explanatory text leaves in fine calligraphy. Original full embossed and pebbled black calf; gilt-stippled board edges and fine gilt inner dentelles. Iridescent endpapers. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title; front board with gilt initials "B. F." (= Berthe Fauché); rear board with gilt vignette "Maison des Oiseaux". All edges gilt.
Read moreRisso, [J.] A. and [P.] A. Poiteau
Histoire des orangers. Ouvrage orné de figures peintes d'après nature; dédié à son Altesse Royale Madame la Duchesse de Berri. Planches.
Paris, Mme hérisant Le Doux, 1818-1819. Folio. A suite of ten colour-printed plates, finished by hand. Framed in style, visible area 29.5 x 22.5 cm; frame size 44.2 x 37.2 cm.
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