Recueil de plantes coloriées, pour servir à l'intelligence des lettres élémentaires sur la botanique.

8vo: 44 pl. (some spotting on pl. xxxiii, dampstain in the margin of pl. v (dictionary)).

Contemp. tree calf, gilt ruled border on covers, gilt orn. flat spine (upper joint splitting), red leather title label, gilt inside dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g..

Very rare collection, complete in itself, of 44 nicely engraved hand-coloured botanical plates by Aubry constituting the last (38th) volume of "Oeuvres complètes" of Rousseau publ. by Poinçot in 1788-1793. The engravings, inserted in the text, are intended to illustrate the thirty-two elementary letters on botany as well as the dictionary of terms of use in botany. In the letters we find the name (in French) and a description of the different flowers and plants represented. Plates I to XXXVIII illustrate the letters and plates I to VI are part of the dictionary of botanical terms.
Ref. Tchemerzine X:68 (Oeuvres complètes). - Not in Nissen, Pritzel.