Redouté (P.J.).- Botany.- L'Hériter de Brutelle (Charles-Louis) Geraniologia

Redouté (P.J.).- Botany.- L'Hériter de Brutelle (Charles-Louis) Geraniologia, seu erodii, pelargonii..., first edition, 44 engraved plates, some repairs to plate 15 (not affecting image), plate 14 with ink correction to imprint, some foxing, contemporary half calf, sympathetically rebacked and recornered, light worming, rubbed, [Nissen BBI 1188; Stafleu & Cowan 4494], folio, Paris, 1787-88 [1792]. *** Plesch-Dartmouth copy. These handsome engravings were by l'Hériter with 31 of them after drawings by P.J. Redouté, others are by C.Aubriet, H.J. Redouté, L.Freret (first state of plate 14 ascribed to P.J. Redoute, as in this copy), James Sowerby. Provenance: Earl of Dartmouth (bookplate); Arnad Plesch (bookplate); Patshull (bookplate)

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