RENAUX, ALAIN Louis XIV's botanical engravings / Alain Renaux 2008 First Edition
Fine copy in the original cloth-backed, colour-printed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages; Physical description: 139 p. : colour illus. ; 33 cm. 58 engravings by Nicolas Robert, Abraham Bosse and Louis de Chastillon, out of 319 created for an unfinished project by the then newly founded Académie royale des sciences (1666) to compile a compendium of knowledge about plants to be called Histoire des plantes. Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]). Summary: Louis XIV enjoyed visiting his fruit and vegetable gardens. Enriched with exotic plants by the numerous botanical expeditions that took place during the seventeenth century, the king's garde.
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