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[BOTANY]
CHAUMETON POIRET CHAMBERET
Medical Flora described by F.P. Chaumeton, Doctor of Medicine, illustrated by Mrs E. P. and by P. J. F. Turpin.
Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke,
3 in-8° volumes, each comprising two tomes of this series. (Tomes 3–4, 5–6, 7–8.) Volumes 1–2 are missing. Tobacco-coloured half-calf. Smooth spine, decorated with gilt fillets.
First edition. The first edition published during the author’s lifetime of this important medical flora, which appeared between 1814 and 1818. It is illustrated with 360 separate colour plates, engraved from drawings by Pierre-Jean-François Turpin, himself a botanist, and by Madame Panckoucke, a pupil of van Spaendonck and Redouté, and the publisher’s wife.
Volume 1, 1814 – MISSING: XVI & 209 pp. 60 plates.
Volume 2, 1815 – MISSING: 236 pp. 60 plates.
Volume 3, 1816: 265 pp.: 60 plates numbered 117 to 172. Plates 120 bis, 123 bis, 129 bis, 148 bis,
Volume 4, 1817: 254 pp.: 56 plates numbered 173 to 235. Plate 231 bis,
Volume 5, 1818: 280 pp.: 64 plates numbered 236 to 291.
Volume 6, 1818: 271 pp.: 60 plates numbered 292 to 349. Plates 307 bis, 333 bis,
From the second volume (1815) onwards, the name of Mme E. Panckoucke is specified on the title page as the painter.
From Volume 3 (1816) onwards, the names of Chamberet and Poiret are added to the author’s name.
A final volume was not added until after the author’s death in 1819.
Volume 7, Parts One and Two. Followed by: An Essay on an Elementary and Philosophical Iconography of Plants, with an explanatory text, by P. J. F. Turpin.
Volume 7, 1820. Part One: 36 plates numbered 1 to 36.
Volume 7, 1820. Part Two: 10 plates numbered 37 to 46. Plates 43 bis and 44 bis.
From this point onwards, plates numbered Tables 54 to 56.
Plates entitled: Table II bis (colour), Table IV bis (colour), continuation of Table IV bis and Table 36 bis.
Large fold-out chart of plant organography.
4 plates numbered Tables 50, 51, 52 and 53.
Plates numbered Table 47, 48, 48 bis and 49.
A fine set of hand-coloured plates.
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