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the two books are sitting side by side on a white surfacean illustration of a wreath with a snake in the middle of itan old book with a bunch of different plants on it
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191 - ROQUES (Joseph). Common, native and exotic plants, drawn and…
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ROQUES (Joseph). Common, native and exotic plants, drawn and coloured from life, with a description of their distinctive characteristics and medicinal properties. Second edition. Paris, published by the author, the widow Hocquart, 1809. 2 volumes in-4, 18 x 24 cm, 2 ff., VIII + 266 pp., frontispiece and 72 plates & 2 ff., 278 pp., 61 plates, contemporary binding in marbled fawn calfskin, spine decorated with faux raised bands and gilt motifs, title labels. Illustrated with 133 engraved plates, coloured and gummed in the period, including the frontispiece. A fine copy. From the natural history library of Gilbert Dufaux (dry stamp on the title page and p. 39). A small worm-eaten area on a few leaves in Volume II. Corners slightly rubbed. Nissen BBI, 1674. – Expert: Cédric and Ithier de FOUGEROLLE
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