Charming work on flowers
JACQUEMART, A. Flore des Dames. Botanique a l'usage des dames et des jeunes personnes. Paris: P-J. Loss & B. Neuhaus. 1840.
8vo. Original red morocco with elaborate gilt bords and tooling to sides, spine with gilt lettering and tooling, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt; pp. 340, 12 hand-coloured plates, 2 uncoloured plates; spine a little rubbed, a little foxing throughout, plates generally clean, very good.
First edition. A charming French guide to flowers, written in the form of a dialogue with passages of poetry.
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