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JOLYCLERC Nicolas Phytologie universelle, ou Histoire naturelle et méthodique des plantes, de leurs propriétés, de leurs vertus et de leur culture.

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Paris, Gueffler jeune, Lamy, Croullebois, An VII (1799)

5 parts in 8 volumes, 8vo (203 x 123 mm) XVI, 496 pp., engraved and colored plates 1-86, 46bis, 48bis, 74bis for volume I ; 3 nn.ll. (half-title, title, list of plates), 273 pp., plates 87-178, 116bis, 117bis, 117ter, 117 quater for volume II ; 3 nn.ll. (half-title, title, list of plates), pp. 274-551, plates 179-241, 196bis for volume III ; 3 nn.ll. (half-title, title, list of plates), 271 pp., plates 242-332, 244bis, 305bis for volume IV ; 3 nn.ll. (half-title, title, list of plates), pp. [271]-525, plates 333-426, 337bis, 355bis, 355ter, 355quater, 417bis for volume V ; 3 nn.ll. (half-title, title, list of plates ), 271 pp., plates 427-517, 504bis for volume VI ; 3 nn.ll. (half-title, title, list of plates ), pp. [271]-534, plates 518-597, 561bis for volume VII ; 2 nn.ll. (half-title, title), 504 pp., plates 598-640 for volume VIII. Illustrated with a total of 657 engraved and finely handcoloured plates. Contemporary red straight grained morocco by Bozérian, covers within triple gilt decorative border, flat spine gilt, inner gilt rule, blue silk endpapers, gilt edges.

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Stafleu-Cowan, 3388 (detailing the plates after the Plesch copy missing plate 244bis); Sitwell, Great Flower Books, 107 (indicating only 638 plates); Pritzel, 4466 (erroneous plate collation). 

First edition of the descriptive text by C. Nicolas Jolyclerc (1746-1818). A very rare copy with the complete suite of 657 plates engraved and coloured at the time.

Stafleu-Cowan indicates that this edition was available with or without the plates and gives its description only according to the Arpad-Plesch copy, incomplete with plate 244bis in volume IV. Sitwell mentions only 638 plates and most probably misses plates 639-640, published with the last issue and illustrating soda. Pritzel is also mistaken and mentions ‘an atlas of more than 700 plates’.

Jolyclerc (1746-1817) was a French botanist and science writer, a professor of natural history and the first French translator of Linnaeus. He first studied botany as a child with the Benedictines, but left the Church after the Revolution to teach natural history, first in Tulle and then in Beauvois. La Phytologie Universelle is considered to be one of the finest plant books of the late eighteenth century.

“Published with or without plates. We have seen no copy with plates and refer to the notes by Collins (Sotheby 406) on the former Plesch copy. This has 656 plates which are reissues from the botanical plates in Garsault” (Stafleu-Cowan).

Magnificent copy, well preserved in a fine binding by the great binder Bozérian

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