Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Other Binding
Publisher: Paris: Firmin Didot (Oakland: Octavo)
Date Published: 1817-1824; 2002
ISBN-13:9781891788284ISBN:1891788280
Description: New. No Jacket (as issued) New digital facsimile (in Adobe PDF format on CD-ROM) of a deluxe copy (signed by Redouté) of the first edition of the most beautiful botanical book of all time, from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress. This Octavo Edition contains detailed digital images of the entire book and French text (may be magnified at up to 200% of original folio size) as well as the first-ever complete English translation and an introduction by Sandra Raphael. ... read more
Description: Paris: Crapelet for P. Dufart and J.F. Hauer & Cie. of St. Petersburg, 1835. 3 volumes, octavo. (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). Half-titles. 2 lithographic portraits of Redouté and Thory by C. Motte after Mauraisse, hand-coloured engraved floral wreath by Manceau after Redouté, 183 stipple-engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand by Chardin, Langlois, Lemaire and others after Redouté (including 3 plates illustrating the anatomy of the rose). Contemporary French blue half morocco gilt, ... read more
Description: 3 volumes, 2° (350 x 260 mm). Engraved portrait of Redouté by C.S. Pradier after Gerard, floral wreath and 169 stipple-engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand, by Langlois, Chapuy and others after Redouté, printed by Rémond. (Occasional spotting throughout. ) Contemporary morocco gilt, gilt spines with repeat pattern of volutes, foliate and dotted tools, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (spines slightly faded with a little wear to head and tail, extremities slightly rubbed). Some ... read more
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