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 mottled calf, gilt dentelles, later gilt morocco label, spine patterned in gilt, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Ex-lib. with institutional bookplates on front pastedown and ink purchase record and 'withdrawn' stamp on rear endpaper at gutter. Rear board and head of front board abraded and a bit soiled. Some soiling in upper outer corner and margin of rear 25 leaves, else clean internally. 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 #z07236
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