Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes

Title Variants

Alternative: Plantes de Dodart

By

Dodart, Denis, 1634-1707 , author

Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676 , engraver
Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714 , engraver, illustrator.
Mabre-Cramoisy, Sébastien, , printer
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1684 , engraver
Académie royale des sciences (France)
Imprimerie royale (France) , printer

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

A Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, MDCLXXVI [1676]

Notes

Colophon reads: A Paris : De l'Imprimerie royale, par Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, directeur de la dite imprimerie, M.DC.LXXV.

Engraved title vignette (arms of arms of Louis XIV); engraved head-piece; engraved pictorial initial.

Errata: page 131.

The "Descriptions" (pages 53-131) comprise 39 full page engravings by Nicolas Robert and Abraham Bosse with explanatory letter-press on opposite pages.

The frontispiece is signed: S. Le Clerc in. et f. It depicts a meeting of the Académie royale des sciences at the royal library at Versailles.

Contents: Project de l'histoire des plantes -- Descriptions de quelques plantes nouvelles.

Hunt botanical cat. | 343

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), | 502

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Auflage), | 502

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), | 84

Subjects

17e siècle , 17th century , botánica , Botanique , Botany , Early works , Early works to 1800 , Engravings , France , Histoire , Identification , Medicinal plants , Obras anteriores a 1800 , Ouvrages avant 1800 , Plantes , Plantes médicinales , Plantkunde , Pre-Linnean works

Call Number

QK41 .D6 (Rare Bk Coll)

Language

French

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.120937
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/04000559
OCLC: 4019759