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177473134Paris: 1774. An attractive engraving from an important and impressive eighteenth century French botanical work by the husband and wife team of Francois and Genevieve Regnault. From their work entitled: 'La Botanique mise a la portee de tout le monde ou collection des plantes d'usage dans la medecine dans les ailments et dans les arts'. Plants are named in Latin Spanish English Italian and German. This is a handsome print of a Silver Firr complete with seeds and nut. Size: 455 x 335 mm. Copperplate engraving with original wash colour. Good condition. unknown
177473270Paris: 1774. An attractive engraving from an important and impressive eighteenth century French botanical work by the husband and wife team of Nicolas Francois and Genevieve Regnault. From their work entitled: 'La Botanique mise a la portee de tout le monde ou collection des plantes d'usage dans la medecine dans les ailments et dans les arts'. Plants are named in Latin Spanish English Italian and German. This work illustrates both helpful medicinaland decorative plants. Blunt says "The most impressive French botanical work of the period". Size: 460 x 340 mm. Copperplate engraving with original wash colour. Good condition. unknown
177473368Paris: 1774. An attractive and impressive botanical print by the husband and wife collaboration of Nicolas and Genevieve Regnault from their work entitled 'La Botanique Mise a la portee de tout le monde ou Collection des Plantes D'Usage.'. The work illustrates both helpful medicinaland decorative plants. Blunt says "The most impressive French botanical work of the period". Size: 335 x 455 mm. Copperplate engraving with original wash colour. Very good condition. unknown
171962442à Paris: Par La Compagnie des libraires 1719. Fine. Par La Compagnie des libraires à Paris 1719 9 x 16 cm relié New edition after the first very rare published in 1670. Huet's Treatise on the Origin of Novels in the form of a letter to Segrais appears at the end of the first part of Zaïde. Armorial copy of Charlotte Emilie Le Fèvre de Caumartin de La cour de Balleroy daughter of Louis-François Le Fèvre de Caumartin lord of Boissy and wife of the Marquis de la Cour de Balleroy. Feminine arms are rare and sought after as few women formed libraries with their coat of arms. The Marquise de Balleroy who died in 1749 settled in Normandy and maintained an intense correspondence with the highest nobility from which she descended. Full speckled brown calf bindings. Raised band spines with decorative tooling. Morocco title labels in tan volume labels in speckled brown calf. Headcap of volume II split. A brown stain in corner of first 10 leaves of volume I gradually fading this stain recurring later spreading then disappearing. A browner area at edge of right corner of volume I on upper board. Despite some flaws a handsome copy. It is now considered that Zaïde was a collaborative work by Segrais and Madame de La Fayette whose Princess of Clèves would appear in 1678. Segrais was her secretary and it is thought that he provided the materials and historical research while Madame de La Fayette handled the entire writing. The action takes place in Spain in the 9th century. Consalve son of one of the greatest counts of Castile takes in Zaïde daughter of a Muslim prince following a shipwreck. Very quickly he falls in love with her but the two young people do not speak the same language. Par La Compagnie des libraires unknown
