ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Botanique ... ornie de soixante-cinq planches, imprimis en couleurs d'aprées peintures de P.J.Redouté . Paris: L.E. Herhan for Delachaussie et Garnery, 1805.
ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Botanique ... ornie de soixante-cinq planches, imprimis en couleurs d'aprées peintures de P.J.Redouté . Paris: L.E. Herhan for Delachaussie et Garnery, 1805. 2 o (523 x 345 mm). Half-title, title with stipple-engraved vignette, 65 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colors, by Bouquet, Jacques Chailly, Mlle. Delelo and others, after Redouté, printed by Langlois (Some light mostly marginal spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, spine with red and tan morocco lettering pieces gilt (rebacked, covers rubbed and worn). Provenance : Manuscript note "Inner Library Ab.L1.No 2" on verso of flyleaf; unidentified member of the Order of the Garter (armorial bookplate on pastedown). FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Rousseau's Lettres élémentaires sur la Botanique was published posthumously in his Oeuvres in 1782. His interest in the subject had first been aroused, in 1763 or 1764, by his enforced exile amongst the natural beauties of Switzerland. Following the current fashion, he made various collections of plant specimens or herbaria, two of which are known to have been given to Madame Étienne Delessert and her daughter Marguérite-Madeleine, for whom the letters on botany were written. This illustrated edition of the text has always been prized for its plates after Redouté. One great admirer was Ruskin who, in 1878, wrote to his bookseller, F.S. Ellis: "Please at once set your Paris agents to look out for all copies that come up, at any sale, of Rousseau's Botanique with coloured plates, 1805 -- and buy all they can get." Cleveland Collections 698, HA Copy this copy; Dunthorne 252; Great Flower Books p. 134; Nissen BBI 1688; Pritzel 7824; Stafleu & Cowan 9688. See Lawrence Redouteana 15.
ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Botanique ... ornie de soixante-cinq planches, imprimis en couleurs d'aprées peintures de P.J.Redouté . Paris: L.E. Herhan for Delachaussie et Garnery, 1805.
ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Botanique ... ornie de soixante-cinq planches, imprimis en couleurs d'aprées peintures de P.J.Redouté . Paris: L.E. Herhan for Delachaussie et Garnery, 1805. 2 o (523 x 345 mm). Half-title, title with stipple-engraved vignette, 65 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colors, by Bouquet, Jacques Chailly, Mlle. Delelo and others, after Redouté, printed by Langlois (Some light mostly marginal spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, spine with red and tan morocco lettering pieces gilt (rebacked, covers rubbed and worn). Provenance : Manuscript note "Inner Library Ab.L1.No 2" on verso of flyleaf; unidentified member of the Order of the Garter (armorial bookplate on pastedown). FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Rousseau's Lettres élémentaires sur la Botanique was published posthumously in his Oeuvres in 1782. His interest in the subject had first been aroused, in 1763 or 1764, by his enforced exile amongst the natural beauties of Switzerland. Following the current fashion, he made various collections of plant specimens or herbaria, two of which are known to have been given to Madame Étienne Delessert and her daughter Marguérite-Madeleine, for whom the letters on botany were written. This illustrated edition of the text has always been prized for its plates after Redouté. One great admirer was Ruskin who, in 1878, wrote to his bookseller, F.S. Ellis: "Please at once set your Paris agents to look out for all copies that come up, at any sale, of Rousseau's Botanique with coloured plates, 1805 -- and buy all they can get." Cleveland Collections 698, HA Copy this copy; Dunthorne 252; Great Flower Books p. 134; Nissen BBI 1688; Pritzel 7824; Stafleu & Cowan 9688. See Lawrence Redouteana 15.
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