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Best.-Nr. 71-6294Paris: French Publisher 1785. Stipple engraving. 54 x 43 cm sheet. Very Good margins trimmed sheet mounted to another support sheet a vertical rub in upper right quadrant.References: Portalis 88; Portalis & Beraldi IIIpt. 1 p. 386; Le Bl. III.292.5; NGA Widener Collection Accession Number Paris: French Publisher, 1785. unknown
Best.-Nr. 51-5259Paris : La Comédie Francaise 1910-1921 . 12 Cartes de visite cards and letters all signed with handwritten messages. 21pp. .BORN 28 Oct 1854 Paris: 2 rue Croix des Petits-Champs - DIED 18 Nov 1941 ParisBIRTH NAME Regnault Jeanne-JuliaGRAVE LOCATION Paris: Passy Cimetière 2 Rue du Commandant Schloesing division 15.Julia Bartet was the daughter of the sculptor Charles-Ferdinand Regnault and Marie-Malvina Beck. She was educated at the Conservatory in Paris. Régnier was one of her teachers.In 1872 she started acting at the Vaudeville and in 1879 she was contracted by the Comédie Française where she became a sociétaire in 1880. In 1874 she gave birth to a son by an unknown father her son died in 1894. She was the star of the Comédie Française and played in tragedies as well as in comedies. Her nickname was 'la Divine'.In 1906 she was awarded the Légion d'honneur chevalier. In 1908 she performed in London for a season and in 1919 she left the stage. In 1920 she became Officier de la Légion d'honneur. She died late in 1941. It is possible that she was born in 1851 instead of 1854.The recipient of the letters is:Mme. Edmond Archdeacon 1872-1960 née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye was the widow of Edmond Archdeacon 1864-1906.She held salons and many of the letters in this collection have to do with these social events often at her salon at no. 3 rue de Tilsitt Paris.Her late husband died in 1906: Edmond Archdeacon Député de la Seine et homme d’affaires français né à Paris le 24 décembre 1864 décédé à Paris le 20 février 1906.Edmond Archdeacon était le fils d’un riche agent de change parisien d’origine irlandaise et d’opinions légitimistes. Grâce à la fortune héritée de son père et à ses vastes propriétés dans l’Yonne il put vivre plus en rentier millionnaire qu’en homme d’affaires habiter sur les Champs Elysées l’hôtel fastueux du duc de Morny et surtout faire de la politique à fonds perdus en finançant avec une rare générosité les mouvements qui lui plaisaient c’est-à-dire résolument hostiles à la IIIe République.Mme. Edmond Archdeacon née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye.: Selon André Becq de Fouquières Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Fayel par son mariage Mme Edmond Archdeacon quitta son hôtel du 15 avenue des Champs-Élysées pour venir résider à no. 3 rue de Tilsitt après la mort de son mari survenue en 1906. .Fondatrice de la “Maison de Repos du Clos Savoyard.” .Née le 2 novembre 1872 à Boulogne-sur-Mer.Décédée le 24 octobre 1960 à Veyrier-du-Lac à l'âge de 87 ans. Sépulture à ParisParents:Robert de Rocquigny du Fayel 1845 - 1929 maire de Neufchâtel;; Marie Connelly 1851 - 1916.Mariée le 20 novembre 1890 à Paris avec Edmond Archdeacon 1864 - 1906 député de la Seine: Enfants: Héloïse 1894 - Louise 1898 - . Expertise by: Alain NICOLAS & Pierre GHENO Experts près la Cour d’Appel de Paris Paris : La Comédie Francaise, 1910-1921 unknown
1798Best.-Nr. 68118à Paris: Chez L'auteur 1798. Fine. Chez L'auteur à Paris 1798 An VI 13 x 21.50 cm broché First edition. Gift inscription on cover: ""De la part de Regnault pour Baudet Lafarge représentant rue et hotel des champs Elisées"". Title of the title page: Catalogue raisonné d'un choix précieux de dessins et d'une nombreuse et riche collection d'estampes anciennes et modernes en feuilles en recueils et en oeuvres livres à figures science et arts tableaux et autres objets curieux. A handsome allegorical frontispiece depicting the interior of a cabinet and a title vignette with Basan's portrait in medallion both by Choffart. Original grey paper wrappers restored with blue paper boards. Spine unlettered with small lacks of paper. Brown dampstain traces to upper margin of final table leaves. Handsome copy full-margined fresh. In the preliminary pages biography of Basan and presentation of the collection. Followed by the catalogue arranged by schools. At the end an alphabetical table of artists' names and a table of contents prints schools. Chez L'auteur hardcover
1732Best.-Nr. 1705260083Paris J. Clouzier 1732-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 volume set complete. New edition. Contemporary leather gilt spine raised bands leather spine labels. Marbled endpapers. Profusely illustrated with plates not collated. Rubbing wear head of joints starting. Scattered foxing. 3 title with repair. Wellcome IV page 495; Sommervogel VI page 1599. Regnault occupied the chair of mathematics at the College Louis-le-Grand and applied the system of Descartes to the study of the exact sciences. Wanting to demonstrate that Antiquity is at the source of modern science Regnault confronts the knowledge of the ancients and that of his time in a living way. He thus imagines encounters between scientists and ancient and modern philosophers for example making dialogue between Aristotle and Descartes. Cioranescu III Bibliographie de la litterature francaise au XVIIIeme 52497; Querard VII La France litteraire p. 498. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Paris, J. Clouzier hardcover
Best.-Nr. 16-5617Circa 1785. . Original handcolored stipple engraving. 57 x 45cm. sheet size.Small margin tears. Uniformly aged. References; Portalis 88; Portalis & Beraldi IIIpt. 1 p. 386; Le Bl. III.292.5.iii; NGA Widener Collection Accession Number1942.9.2118 Circa 1785. unknown
1745Best.-Nr. 209561745 Regnault Physics Experiments Science Medicine Cardiology Rockets Astronomy Noel Regnault was an 18th-century French scientist who was best-remembered for his book 'Les Entretiens Physiques'. This book which proved to be quite popular through the first half of the 18th-century was a collection of scientific discussions on physics experiments – experiments on motion hydrostatics physical studies of the earth behaviors of liquids and many other studies. Item number: #20956 Price: $599 REGNAULT Noel Les Entretiens Physiques D'Ariste Et D'Eudoxe Ou Physique Nouvelle En Dialogues : Qui renferme preÌciseÌment ce qui s'est deÌcouvert de plus curieux & de plus utile dans la Nature Paris: chez Jean-Thomas Herissant 1745. Details: · Collation: Complete with all pages; o Vol. I – xxiii 1 414 6 31 plates o Vol. II – 2 ix i.e. iv 452 20 plates · Language: French · Binding: Leather; tight and secure · Size: ~6.75in X 4in 17cm x 10cm Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 20956 Photos available upon request. Jean-Thomas Herissant hardcover
1841Best.-Nr. 127081841 Imprenta de D. José Palacios Madrid 1841. Encuadernación de época en pasta española con tejuelo y dorados en el lomo cantos pintados 716 págs. En muy buen estado. Encuadernación de tapa dura. Muy bien. hardcover
1737Best.-Nr. 68BB1737. 3ième éd. revûe et corrigé. 4 vol. Paris Damonneville 1737. 38 Fig. auf 31 Taf. 1 Bl. XIX 2 Bl. III 385 S. XXVIII. - Fig. 39-65 auf 20 z.T. gefalt. Taf. III 417 S. XXXVI. - Fig. 57-89 auf 23 Taf. III 376 S. XXIV. - Fig. 3-39 auf 35 Taf. II 421 S. XXIV. Original-Lederbände mit aufwendiger Rückenvergoldung berieben/Bd. IV mit kleinerer Fehlstelle und marmorierten Vorsatzblättern. Selten. - Jöchers VI 1580; Poggendorff II 588. - Regnault 1683-1762 war Jesuit und Professor der Physik am Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris vgl. Jöchers/Poggendorff. Die zahlr. Kupferstiche stellen zumeist physikalische Experimente sowie astronomische Abläufe dar. - Zweite Tafel des 1. Bandes herausgelöst aber vorhanden. Titelblätter jeweils mit Besitzvermerk von alter Hand. Buchblöcke sauber und sehr gut erhalten. unknown
Best.-Nr. 72833Paris Regnault 1775. Single sheet 26.6 x 18.7 cm. Engraved and finely hand-coloured plate with printed caption. = A very rare illustration of a guinea pig with one head and two bodies owned by a certain Mr Cotelle in Paris. Engraved by the French engraver Geneviève de Nangis 1746-1802 after a drawing by her husband the French naturalist engraver and publisher Nicolas François Regnault 1746-1810. This plate - numbered 2 - belongs to a suite of ten plates forming a first series of illustrations on teratological mammals. This suite was recorded in May 1775 as being published earlier in that year apparently with a temporary title Jeux de la nature ou recueil des monstres see: Affiches Annonces et Avis Divers 18 p. 71. In total 40 plates were printed. All are very rare. There are no auction records whatsoever. Right edge a bit uneven slight staining at the lower edge otherwise very good clean and well-coloured. Brunet IV p. 1187. Neither in Cat. BMNH nor in Nissen. unknown
Best.-Nr. 57504Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de l'Institut Impérial de France. Tome XXXVII Première Partie AND Deuxième Partie. Firmin Didot Frères Fils et C. Paris. 1868-1870. 2 parts in 1. 4to. pp. iv LVI 575 i. 3 large folding engraved plates; vi LXIV ii 577-968. 2 large folding engraved plates. Original boards rebacked uncut and unopened book-plate of HENRY LEAUTÉ a very good copy. Each volume also contains an Éloge Historique in part I to DU TROCHET in part 2 to LOUIS PUISSANT. Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de l'Institut Impérial de France. Tome XXXVII, Première Partie AND Deuxième Partie. Fir hardcover
1731Best.-Nr. 021196London 1731. First Edition . Full-Leather. Three volumes all good to very good in the original calf binding. The front board is detached on all three volumes with evidence of bookplate removals on the front pastedown of each front board. Spines on all three volumes have title label "Philosophical/Conversations" in gilt with black background. Fairly minor dampstaining to small areas at edges in each volume all 89 copper plates appear to be present. Translated and with notes by Thomas Dale. Volume I contains 402 pages volume II contains 414 pages and volume III contains 342 pages. hardcover
1808Best.-Nr. 1009911808. Cette vente se fera les mardi 13 et mercredi 14 décembre 1808 cinq heures de relevée rue des Bons-Enfans Saint-Honoré no. 30. La présente notice se distribue a Paris chez MM. Genest de Neslu Commissaire-Priseur. Regnault Peintre et Graveur. 1808. 10pp. 72 items. Charming woodcut of cherubs looking at a painting at the beginning of the catalogue. 19th century blue half cloth binding blue paper boards. This sale was anonymous but some copies including an earlier copy that I owned mention that this is the collection "Lami bookseller". This must be Pierre-Michel Lamy 17. - 18. who went bankrupt in 1808 but seemed to be in business again from 1812 onwards. According to a copy annotated by Regnault-Delalande the total amount of the sale was 136555 francs. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 16-4048Paris: Regnault 1775. . A collection of 8 engravings on old laid paper; 7 of the engravings co-joined. One likely by another hand depicts a 30 year old man in Naples co-joined to a child in 1742.Les Écarts de la nature: Enfant monstrueux. Published 1775 by the french couple Nicolas-François Regnault and Geneviève Regnault. Paris: Regnault, 1775. unknown
1719Best.-Nr. 62442à 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
Best.-Nr. 78231Amsterdam H. G. Löhner 1746. Kl.8° gest. Titelvign. 370 S.S.368–370 falsch paginiert 16 gef. Kupfertstich-Tafeln. HLdr. d. Zeit Rückenvergoldung tadell. Brunet VI 20359. Abbé Outhier 1694-1774 ein typischer Polyhistor der französischen Aufklärung Kartographie Astronomie Geodäsie Mechanik und Mitglied mehrerer wissenschaftlichen Akademien nahm 1736–37 an der Expedition von Graf Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis nach Lappland teil. Die Expedition sollte im Auftrag der französischen Académie des Sciences eine genaue Gradmessung eines langen Meridianbogens vornehmen um aus den Unterschieden eine andere Gruppe unternahm identische Messungen in Ecuador und Peru im Krümmungsradius der Erde ihre Größe und Form zu bestimmen. Sein erstmals 1744 in Paris veröffentlichter Bericht bringt ausser der Zusammenfassung der wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse auch diverse Beobachtungen über Land und Leute die während der teils unter extremen klimatischen Bedingungen durchgefürt werden musste. Die Tafeln zeigen ausser mehreren Karten Stadtplänen und Merkwürdigkeiten Skandinavien Stockholm Falun; astronom. Turm in Kopenhagen u.a. auch die Lappländer und ihre Geräte und Kostüme. 010 Amsterdam, H. G. Löhner, 1746 unknown
2011Best.-Nr. 97238SJ BOOKS; D. A. P. Distribution . New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 208 pp. ; 132 illus. 50 in color. -- with a bonus offer--; In 1989 Malcolm McLaren had his only number one hit with a single called "Deep in Vogue." Early the next year Madonna had one of the biggest hits of her career with the single "Vogue" and when Jennie Livingston's film Paris Is Burning arrived in cinemas the same year winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival the mainstream got hip to New York City's extraordinary ball culture from which the film and McLaren and Madonna's songs had arisen. Paris Is Burning documented a gay ballroom scene that emerged in Harlem in the mid-1980s which drew African American and Latino gay and transgender communities to compete against one another for their dancing skills the verisimilitude of their drag and their ability to walk on the runway. Photographer Chantal Regnault spent many years recording this scene from which the dance style known as voguing arose. A visual riot of fashion polysexuality and subversive style Voguing and the Gay Balls of New York City is also an extraordinary document on sexuality and race. The wild years of voguing are vividly captured in Regnault's hundreds of amazing previously unpublished photographs. The book also features interviews with key figures from the movement essays flyers and ephemera. Photographer and documentarist Chantal Regnault was born in France. She left Paris after the 1968 uprisings to live in New York where she lived for the next 15 years. At the end of the 1980s she became immersed in Harlem's voguing scene. Also around this time Regnault developed an interest in Haitian voodoo culture and began to divide her time between Haiti and New York. Her widely published photographs have appeared in major magazines and newspapers including Vanity Fair and The New York Times. 20120201 . 2011. 0955481767 . SJ BOOKS; D. A. P. (Distribution) paperback
2015Best.-Nr. 111632Te Papa Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . 2015. 099410412X . Te Papa Press hardcover
1600Best.-Nr. 032381Paris: Marc Orry 1600 A good copy of the 2nd French edition of Joseph Acosta's important work on the New World first published in Spanish in 1590. Acosta was a Jesuit who spent 17 years in South America and Mexico. His work based on careful observation formed one of the first accounts of the New World. This copy is in probably contemporary full vellum binding with yapp edges. The original ties have gone. It is difficult to say if the binding was hard or soft cover because at some point in its history it has had an old stiff embossed wallpaper with gilt birds and flowers used to form new endpapers. There are no pages before the title page which has had a strip added at the bottom and which is coming loose. Contents: title page; dedication pp ii-iv; advert; poems 4pp; Extrait du Privilege du Roi 1p; Text in 7 books pp 1-375; table of contents 34 pp. The text pages are numbered on the recto only. With decorative head pieces and initial capitals. The text is very clean with just the occasional mark and some light underlining at p 238 but p 58 is missing. P 31 is mispaginated as p 13; p 267 is un-numbered and p 97 is very thin with a hole in the bottom margin. The final third of the book is quite difficult to open fully - probably because of the way the endpapers have been added. Marc Orry hardcover
Best.-Nr. ABAA-75TH-VBF-30Paris chez l'auteur 1774. 8 folio volumes 485 x 360 mm of: I/ 2 ll. including a title-page in color and an introduction to botany 3 numbered plates in color out of pagiantion 1 second title-p. handwritten in black ink 60 plates in color 60 pp. 1 handwritten table p. A total of 63 pl. in color for part 1. II/ 1 flying colored title folded 1 handwritten title l. 60 plates in color 60 pp. 1 handwritten table p.; III/ 1 handwritten title l. 60 plates in color 60 pp. 1 handwritten table p.; IV/ 1 handwritten title l. 60 plates in color 60 pp. 1 handwritten table p.; V/ 2 ll. including 1 title-p. in color and another title-p. handwritten in black ink 55 plates in color 55 pp. 1 handwritten table p. 1 table l.; VI/ 2 ll. including 1 title-p. handwritten in black ink and 1 title-p. in color 60 plates in color 60 pp. 1 handwritten table p.; VII/ 1 title-p. in color 60 plates in color 60 pp. 1 handwritten table p.; VIII/ 2 ll including one title-page in color and a notice to the reader 54 plates in color 54 pp. 1 handwritten table p. 1 table p. 12 pp. with list of diseases. A total of 6 titles in color and 472 full-page plates in color. Bound in full green vellum small labels in the center of the front overs bearing the numbers of the volumes handwritten in ink spines ribbed red morocco lettering pieces red edges. A few restorations. Contemporary binding. First edition of one of the most beautiful books on botany from the 18th century illustrated with 472 full-page plates hand-colored by Nicolas-François Regnault 1746-c.1810 and Genevieve de Nangis Regnault. Blunt & Stearn p.171; Johnston 517; Dunthorne 256; Great Flower Books 1990 p.131; Nissen BBI 1600; Pritzel 7475; Stafleu & Cowan 8810; Soultrait 18th century 118. Blunt wrote about this book: "Perhaps the most impressive French botanical book of the period is Francois Regnault's La Botanique with nearly five hundred hand-coloured etchings. Many of these plates are the work of Genevieve de Nangis Regnault. The book deals with useful and decorative plants and the author engagingly described the potato 'as possibly the only good thing that ever came out of America'". Painter draftsman and engraver Nicolas-François Regnault composed La Botanique with the help of his wife Genevieve who drew engraved and colored the vast majority of the plates. "Mrs Regnault poses the colors with delicacy as evidenced by the plates dedicated to flowers with subtle hues such as the honeysuckle which also adorns the garland of the title page or the oleander". Pinault Sorensen Le Livre de botanique 2008 p.70. In addition to the list of medicinal plants the book also lists plants meant for gastronomy or the practice of the arts. This huge work required 12 years of work for the couple to complete the work. The aim of its authors was to produce a practical treatise of botany hence the inclusion of a "List of diseases" explaining how each plant should be used against each disease whether it is the migraine insomnia vertigo apoplexy or even drunkenness. Superb very wide-margined copy of this magnificent work of natural sciences complete with its 472 watercolored engravings preserved in its uniform contemporary green vellum binding. FR Paris chez l'auteur 1774. 8 volumes in-folio de : I/ 2 ff. dont une page de titre en couleurs et une introduction à la botanique 3 planches en couleurs numérotées hors texte 1 deuxième p. de titre calligraphiée à la main à l'encre noire 60 planches en couleurs 60 pp. 1 p. de table manuscrite. Soit un total de 63 pl. en couleurs pour le tome 1. II/ 1 f. de titre en couleurs non relié et plié 1 f. de titre manuscrit 60 planches en couleurs 60 pp. 1 p. de table manuscrite ; III/ 1 f. de titre manuscrit 60 planches en couleurs 60 pp. 1 p. de table manuscrite ; IV/ 1 f. de titre manuscrit 60 planches en couleurs 60 pp. 1 p. de table manuscrite ; V/ 2 ff. dont 1p. de titre en couleurs et 1 deuxième p. de titre calligraphiée à la main à l'encre noire 55 planches en couleurs 55 pp. 1 p. de table manuscrite 1 f. de table ; VI/ 2 ff. dont 1 p. de titre calligraphiée à la main à l'encre noire et 1p. de titre en couleurs 60 planches en couleurs 60 pp. 1 p. de table manuscrite ; VII/ 1 p. de titre en couleurs 60 planches en couleurs 60 pp. 1 p. de table manuscrite ; VIII/ 2 ff. dont une page de titre en couleurs et un avertissement 54 planches en couleurs 54 pp. 1 p. de table manuscrite 1 p. de table 12 pp. de table des maladies. Soit un total de 6 titres en couleurs et de 472 planches à pleine page coloriées. Relié en plein vélin vert petites étiquettes sur la partie centrale des plats portant les numéros de tomes manuscrits à l'encre dos à nerfs pièce de titre en maroquin rouge tranches rouges. Qq. restaurations. Reliure de l'époque. 485 x 360 cm. Edition originale de l'un des plus beaux livres de botanique du XVIIIe siècle illustré de 472 planches à pleine page coloriées à la main de Nicolas-François Regnault 1746-c.1810 et de Geneviève de Nangis Regnault. Blunt & Stearn p.171 ; Johnston 517 ; Dunthorne 256 ; Great Flower Books 1990 p.131 ; Nissen BBI 1600 ; Pritzel 7475 ; Stafleu & Cowan 8810 ; Soultrait 18th century 118. Blunt écrivait de ce livre : " Perhaps the most impressive French botanical book of the period is Francois Regnault's La Botanique with nearly five hundred hand-coloured etchings. Many of these plates are the work of Genevieve de Nangis Regnault. The book deals with useful and decorative plants and the author engagingly described the potato 'as possibly the only good thing that ever came out of America'". Peintre dessinateur et graveur Nicolas-François Regnault composa La Botanique avec l'aide de sa femme Geneviève qui dessina grava et coloria la très grande majorité des planches. " Mme Regnault pose avec délicatesse les couleurs comme en témoignent les planches consacrées à des fleurs aux fins coloris comme le chèvrefeuille qui orne aussi la guirlande de la page de titre ou le laurier-rose " Pinault Sorensen Le Livre de botanique 2008 p.70. " Les planches de cette collection continuent de se distribuer depuis deux ans avec la plus grande exactitude & à la satisfaction de tous ceux qui veulent prendre une connaissance utile commode & précise des plantes en usage dans la Médecine & dans les Arts. Les soins que se donnent M. Regnault pour présenter ces plantes avec leurs couleurs leurs ramifications leurs développemens ne peuvent que contribuer à nous familiariser avec ces plantes & à nous les faire reconnaitre au premier aspect. Des notices rédigées avec clarté & puisées dans les meilleures sources accompagnent chaque plante & nous instruisent des qualités physiques que le dessin ou la couleur ne peut rendre telles que l'odeur la faveur les propriétés ou les vertus de la plante. La fidélité avec laquelle M. Regnault s'est acquitté de ses engagemens envers ses premiers souscripteurs doit lui mériter la confiance du public & l'accueil le plus favorable pour une collection qui devient de jour en jour plus riche plus précieuse & plus utile. Il parait tous les mois cinq plantes nouvelles. Le prix de chaque planche est de 1 liv. 4 f. pour les souscripteurs. On peut s'abonner pour une année entière moyennant 72 liv. aux adresses ci-dessus indiquées ". Outre la liste des plantes à usage médicinal l'ouvrage répertorie également les plantes destinées à la gastronomie ou à la pratique des arts. Ce travail considérable demanda 12 années de travail au couple pour achever l'ouvrage. L'objectif de ses auteurs était de produire un traité de botanique à usage pratique d'où l'inclusion d'un " Tableau des maladies " expliquant comment chaque plante devrait être utilisée contre chaque maladie qu'il s'agisse de la migraine de l'insomnie du vertige de l'apoplexie ou même de l'ivresse. Superbe exemplaire très grand de marges de ce magnifique ouvrage de sciences naturelles bien complet de ses 472 estampes aquarellées conservé dans sa reliure uniforme en vélin vert de l'époque. hardcover
