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[LESLIBOUDOIS, Thémistocle Gaspard].
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73
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[LESLIBOUDOIS, Thémistocle Gaspard].
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
[LESLIBOUDOIS, Thémistocle Gaspard].
Botany for Ladies, or An Easy Method for Learning About Plants Without a Tutor.
Paris, Delarue; Lille, Castiaux, (c. 1821).
3 volumes in-16 (13.7 x 9 cm), 197 pp. including a portrait; 192 pp., including a portrait, plus 35 pp. and 35 plates (excluding the portrait of Linnaeus, Carl von Linné). Paperback, green paper cover printed by the publisher, in an engraved slipcase by the publisher featuring line-engraved portraits of Jussieu and Tournefort (minor, insignificant flaws to the covers; spine of the plate volume weakened; slipcase tarnished; slight foxing).
A charming little volume, illustrated with 35 finely engraved black-and-white botanical plates, as well as portraits of botanists.
Attributed to Thémistocle Gaspard Lesliboudois (1797–1876), the work was published anonymously, with the words ‘by a professor of botany’ on the title page.
Sometimes attributed to Pierre Boitard.
Dedicated to the Countess of Murat.
Provenance: handwritten bookplate dated 1932 on the slipcase and a discreet dry stamp on the covers [Etablissement Combes], a locksmith’s firm in Paris in the early 20th century.
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