GARIDEL, Pierre Joseph (1658-1737). [Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix, et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence]. [Plates only]. [Aix: Joseph David, 1715].
2o (355 x 245 mm). Engraved frontispiece after A. Bouisson and 100 engraved plates by and after Honoré Blanc, all with engraved captions. (Some light spotting or browning.) Later mottled calf, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, brown morocco gilt lettering piece (chipping to spine, corners bumped, one repaired, joints worn).
Set of the plates, without title or text. Mostly clean impressions. Three missing plates supplied in watercolor. Missing 18 numbered plates (see Cleveland Collections), mostly as called for by Nissen, except with plates 43, 95, and 105, and 2 plates numbered "2", and lacking plates 45 and 107 (see previous lot). Blank leaves left for the missing plates, except for 16, 41, and 66 which have been supplied as hand-painted gouaches. Cleveland Collections 336, HA Copy 3 this copy; Hunt 434; Nissen BBI 685; Pritzel 3199.
GARIDEL, Pierre Joseph (1658-1737). [Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix, et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence]. [Plates only]. [Aix: Joseph David, 1715].
2o (355 x 245 mm). Engraved frontispiece after A. Bouisson and 100 engraved plates by and after Honoré Blanc, all with engraved captions. (Some light spotting or browning.) Later mottled calf, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, brown morocco gilt lettering piece (chipping to spine, corners bumped, one repaired, joints worn).
Set of the plates, without title or text. Mostly clean impressions. Three missing plates supplied in watercolor. Missing 18 numbered plates (see Cleveland Collections), mostly as called for by Nissen, except with plates 43, 95, and 105, and 2 plates numbered "2", and lacking plates 45 and 107 (see previous lot). Blank leaves left for the missing plates, except for 16, 41, and 66 which have been supplied as hand-painted gouaches. Cleveland Collections 336, HA Copy 3 this copy; Hunt 434; Nissen BBI 685; Pritzel 3199.
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