Merat, F. V. [François Victor]

Eléments de botanique à l'usage des personnes qui suivent les cours du jardin du roi et de la faculté de médecine de Paris...

Paris: Chez Crochard, 1829. Hardcover. Sixth edition, 1829. 12mo. x,408 pp. Half title. In French. Later red paper over boards, backed in polished calf, spine titled and ruled in gilt. Ex-lib., with small institutional bookplates on front pastedown and 'withdrawn' stamp in rear free endpaper at gutter. Some staining and moderate edgewear to binding, foxing throughout. A good copy. 19th-century French botanical textbook for students of both gardening and medicine. The author, François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (1780-1851), was a French physician, botanist, and mycologist. Good +. Item #z07232

Price: $45.00