REGNAULT NICOLAS FRANÇOIS La Botanique mise a la Portée de T

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REGNAULT, NICOLAS-FRANÇOIS. La Botanique mise a la Portée de Tout le Monde; ou, Collection des Plantes d'Usage de la Medecine, dans les Alimens, et dans les Arts. 3 hand-colored engraved titles; 472 hand-colored botanical plates, each with leaf of letterpress explanatory text. Engraved leaf of botanical terms in Volume 1; letterpress leaf listing plants and their classification and 12-page table of illnesses and plants used to treat them at end of Volume 3. Contemporary calligraphic manuscript table of contents at end of each volume. 3 volumes. Folio, 474x336 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine ends chipped, cover corners worn through, Volume 3 front cover detached; some plates toned or lightly offset, the majority clean. Early booklabel of the Bibliothèque de Mme. Colin-de-Saint-March à Coulommiers. Paris: chez l'Auteur . . . & chez Didot le Jeune, 1774

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