Méthode éprouvé, Avec laquelle on peut parvenir facilement, et sans maître, à connoître les Plantes de l'intérieur de France, et en particulier celle des environs d'Orléans...
Orléans: De l'imprimerie de Darnault-Maurant, 1803. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1803. xv,592 pp. including vignettes. Contemporary half calf and speckled paper over vellum, gilt morocco label, spine ruled in gilt. Ex-lib. with institutional bookplate on front pastedown and 'withdrawn' stamp on rear pastedown at gutter. Ink ownership signature at head of front free endpaper, occasional contemporary ink annotations in margins. Some wear to binding and dampstain affecting front board and first several leaves. Contents generally very clean. Very good. A practical guide to the plants of France, particularly in and around Orléans, 'infinitiely useful to people who spend part of the year in the country and to young ones to whom it may inspire a taste for natural history' (title page). The author, French botanist François Noel Alexandre Dubois (1752-1824), dedicates the work to Etienne-Alexandre Bernier, Bishop of Orléans, who had been appointed by Napoleon to reconcile the Church with the French Republic. Very Good. Item #z07235
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