(NATURAL HISTORY) Turpin Pierre Jean Francois Dictionnaire d

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(NATURAL HISTORY.) Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois. Dictionnaire des Sciences. Over 800 uncolored engraved plates. 12 volumes. 8vo, 1/4 contmporary green calf over marbled paper boards, spines gilt, rubbed; minor intermittent foxing. Paris, 1816-1830

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Plate volumes only of this wonderful compendium of natural history illustration. 'Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was possibly the greatest natural genius of all the French botanical painters of his day' (Wilfrid Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, page 180).