44 plates of botany in colors - Lot 778

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44 plates of botany in colors - Lot 778
44 plates of botany in colors ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques) Complete works. Edition with 90 engravings, including 44 coloured botanical plates. Paris, Poinçot, 1788-93]. 38 volumes in-8, illustrated with 80 engraved plates including a portrait, 38 ornate titles, folding plates of music and 44 coloured plates of botany by Aubry. Mottling in 5 volumes, a few small light rings in the margins here and there on some leaves. Contemporary fawn calf, decorated smooth spines, red title-pieces, black end-pieces, a few bumped corners, a few torn off headpieces, fine lace framing the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges (with some occasional lack of gilt). Book in good condition, botanical collection in excellent condition, on blue paper. Beautiful collective edition of Rousseau's works with frontispieces and out-of-text figures by Moreau, Marillier, Monnet, Le Barbier, etc.; 13 folding plates of music. The penultimate volume contains engraved music tunes, the last one is a collection of 44 coloured plates of botanical plants by Aubry.
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