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1802réf. 70782Ouvrage divisé en deux parties, les préceptes et les modèles, pour servir à l'instruction de la Jeunesse., Seconde Édition, 3 vol. in-18 reliure de l'époque pleine basane mouchetée, dos lisse orné, toutes tranches marbrées, roulette dorées d'encadrement en plats, coupes ornées, Chez Le Clere, Libraire, Paris, 1802, 328 ; 294 ; 363 pp.
1807réf. 52869Paris chez Perlet 1807. FIRST EDITIONS THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY 2 WORKS BOUND IN ONE VOLUME WITH COLOUR PLATES 1807. LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS: FIRST EDITION 1807. French text 8vo approximately 205 x 115 mm 8 x 4¾ inches 24 plates of FLOWERS printed in colours and finished by hand after drawings by J.G. PRETRE and his daughter Mlle Josephine Pretre plus 12 folding leaves of engraved music pages: viii 1-384. LE PANIER DE FRUITS ou descriptions botaniques et notices historiques des principaux fruits cultives en France; suivies de differens morceaux de litterature et de morale; ouvrage orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees; destine aux jeunes gens. FIRST EDITION 1807 French text 24 plates of FRUITS printed in colours and finished by hand after the Pretres pages: viii 1- 384. Bound in full contemporary mottled sheep narrow gilt floral border to covers gilt decoration to spine 2 gilt lettered red morocco labels edges and endpapers marbled. A few hair-line surface cracks to spine small bump to upper corner of lower cover small oval ink stamp removed from blank area of first title page now neatly patched a total of 8 further ink stamps of E. Tessier 1 to blank veso of 1 plate and the rest to lower margins of text throughout the 2 works not affecting text or images blank piece torn off lower corner of page 77/78 first work now neatly repaired no loss to text pale brown stain to lower margin of pages 267-270 first work lower blank margin torn off final page of second work now neatly repaired with loss of the word finis very good copies. This is the Plesch copy with the gilt red leather bookplate of the collection of Arpad Plesch on the front pastedown. See: Sotheby's Catalogue of The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik Collected by Arpad Plesch Part 2 page 183 No. 532 listing our copy; Gordon Dunthorne Flower and Fruit Prints 18th & 19th centuries Catalogue Raisonne page 172 Numbers 15 & 16; H. Frederic Janson Pomona's Harvest An Illustrated Chronicle of Antiquarian Fruit Literature page 306; Sandra Raphael An Oak Spring Pomona No. 45 pages 122-124. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Paris, chez Perlet, 1807. hardcover