FRUITS. (2). NOISETTE, LOUIS CLAUDE. Le Jardin fruitier, histoire et culture, la description, la culture des arbres fruitiers, des ananas, melon et fraisiers, description et usages des fruits... I-II. 2nd enlarged edition. Paris (Audot) (1833)-1839. Large 8vo (235x155 mm). (10), 94; (4),(7)-348 pp. Lacks second title. 7 engravings in the text part, 152, of which 2 folding, colour-printed stipple engravings, finished by hand after drawings by Pancrace Bessa (complete, numbered 1-149, 5 plates [70, 81, 86, 88 and 100] uncoloured as usual, a few with some foxing or soiling, some occasional minor spotting, 1 small marginal tear; text with some occasional foxing, especially the title leaves, some worming to margin at the end). Contemporary brown blindstamped calf bindings, partly worn, vol. I with upper outer joint split, gilt spines, faded, gilt edges. 2 volumes. Nissen, BBI 1451. Pritzel 6733. First edition was published in 1821. Lacking titlepage to part 2. Louis Claude Noisette (1772-1849), French botanist and head of the botanical garden at Val-de-Grace until 1798, he later also established his own botanical garden, becoming one of the leading gardening authorities in Europe. Photo. Changes Lacks second title in part 2. Otherwise complete. Saknar titelbladet till del 2. I övrigt komplett.
FRUITS. (2). NOISETTE, LOUIS CLAUDE. Le Jardin fruitier, histoire et culture, la description, la culture des arbres fruitiers, des ananas, melon et fraisiers, description et usages des fruits... I-II. 2nd enlarged edition. Paris (Audot) (1833)-1839. Large 8vo (235x155 mm). (10), 94; (4),(7)-348 pp. Lacks second title. 7 engravings in the text part, 152, of which 2 folding, colour-printed stipple engravings, finished by hand after drawings by Pancrace Bessa (complete, numbered 1-149, 5 plates [70, 81, 86, 88 and 100] uncoloured as usual, a few with some foxing or soiling, some occasional minor spotting, 1 small marginal tear; text with some occasional foxing, especially the title leaves, some worming to margin at the end). Contemporary brown blindstamped calf bindings, partly worn, vol. I with upper outer joint split, gilt spines, faded, gilt edges. 2 volumes. Nissen, BBI 1451. Pritzel 6733. First edition was published in 1821. Lacking titlepage to part 2. Louis Claude Noisette (1772-1849), French botanist and head of the botanical garden at Val-de-Grace until 1798, he later also established his own botanical garden, becoming one of the leading gardening authorities in Europe. Photo. Changes Lacks second title in part 2. Otherwise complete. Saknar titelbladet till del 2. I övrigt komplett.
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