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Maout et Descaisne: General Treatise of descriptive and analytic Botany. First and second part, 1868.

A very extensive handbook in the field of Botany, based on the knowledge of the time. Explanations supported by a very large number of, particularly good drawings.

The first

Botany - Quantity: 1 - Book

E. Le Maout / J. Decaisne - Traité Général de Botanique descriptive et analytique, première  et deuxième - 1868

Brisseau-Mirbel - ‎Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie végétales. Edition Originale. 
2 Volumes in one book 

Title: ‎Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie végétales suivi de la nomenclature méthodique ou raisonnée des parties extérieures des plantes et un exposé succinct des

Botany, Agriculture, Herbarium, Illustrated, Incunabula & early printing, Nature, Biology - Quantity: 10 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Brisseau-Mirbel C.F. - ‎Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie végétales - 1801

A fascinating illustrated edition of 23 lithographs bound with serpentine embellishments of this work that blends literature and illustration in which flowers are personified and transformed into human figures, mainly female, embodying characters, emotions and social types -

The

Botany, Illustrated, Science, Natural History, Literature, Poetry, Nature - Quantity: 1 - Book

J. J. Grandville, Alph. Karr, Taxile Delord et le Comte Foelix - Les fleurs animées - 1867

Superb illustrated edition of this scientific and technical work devoted to practical horticulture, aimed at disseminating knowledge, innovations, and experiences related to the cultivation of plants, fruits, vegetables, and flowers in 19th-century Europe, notably driven by

Botany, Agriculture, Natural History, Science, Nature, Illustrated, Reference - Quantity: 1 - Book

MM. Poiteau et Vilmorin - Revue Horticole. Journal d'horticulture pratique - 1851

General History of Travels, or, New Collection of all the relations of travels by sea and by land, which have up to now been published in the different languages of all known nations: containing what is most remarkable, most useful, and best attested in the countries where

Travels, Illustrated, Botany, Natural History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Antoine François Prévost - Histoire générale des voyages  .. Indes Orientales -10 gravures/kaarten - 1753

The Mirror of the Belgian Congo - Volume 2 - Preface by Messrs. Jean and Jérôme Tharaud - Text by Messrs. P. Guebels, Paul Fontainas, Paul Salkin, Philippe Soupault, J. Maes and H. Schouteden - Artistic Direction: Isy Brachot, G. Mollard, Paul Salkin-Massé - National Society of

Archaeology, Botany, Cartography, Geography, Colonial history, Natural History, Regional interest, Illustrated, Topography, Travels - Quantity: 1 - Book

P. Daye, J.-M. Jadot, etc. - Le Miroir du Congo Belge - Tome 2 - 1929

In-4 xxviii, 387 pp. 23 finely colored flower plates, under serpents, and a manuscript leaf inserted listing 302 engravings. Organography and taxonomy. Natural History of Plant Families and of the principal species according to the classification of Adrien de Jussieu.
Binding

Le Maout - Botanique Organographie et Taxonomie - 1854

CHANVALON (Of, Priest of the Order of Malthe)
Manual of the fields.
or Selected, instructive and entertaining collection of all that is most necessary & most useful, for living in the countryside with ease & pleasure.
Paris, Lottin Le Jeune, 1769.
Small quarto (17.1 cm x 11 cm)

Agriculture, Botany, Hunting, shooting and fishing - Quantity: 1 - Book

Prêtre de l'ordre de Malthe De Chanvalon - Manuel des champs [Agriculture - Chasse & pêche] - 1769

SPARRMAN, André, translated by M. Le Tourneur. Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, and around the world with Captain Cook, and principally in the land of the Hottentots and the Kaffirs.
Paris, Buisson, 1787.

2 volumes quarto. [3] prelim. leaves, xi pages, [1], 478 pp., 3 plates

Africa, Animals, Anthropology, Botany, Tribal art and culture, Natural History, Illustrated, Travels, Science, Nature - Quantity: 2 - Book

André Sparmann - Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance - 1787

Rare set of 50 original botanical sheets produced in the mid-1970s at the prestigious Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the State in Gembloux, Belgium.
This herbarium stands out for the high quality of its presentation and the scientific precision of its annotations.
Each sheet

Botany, Herbarium - Quantity: 1 - Book

Alain keulen - Herbier de collection (50 fiches) - Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux - 1975

Rarest two-volume set enriched with a folded map and 12 engraved plates. This major treatise on horticulture and practical agronomy, based on experience gained in the layout and maintenance of royal gardens -

The author presents a complete method for designing, organizing, and

Agriculture, Botany, Illustrated, Natural History - Quantity: 2 - Book

Jean De La Quintinie - Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers - 1697

Candolle A. P. - Théorie élémentaire de la botanique. First Edition. 1813.
Title: Théorie élémentaire de la botanique ou exposition des principes de la classification naturelle et de l'art de décrire et d'étudier les végétaux.
First Edition 
Éditeur: Paris, Déterville.
Date de

Botany, Medicine, Agriculture, Nature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Candolle A. P - Théorie élémentaire de la botanique. First Edition - 1813

The Theory and Practice of Gardening, where one treats in depth of the beautiful gardens commonly called the gardens of pleasure and cleanliness with the geometric practices necessary to trace on the ground all kinds of figures, and a suitable treatise on hydraulics appropriate

Illustrated, Botany - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Antoine-Joseph Dezallier D'Argenville - La Théorie et la pratique du jardinage [49 planches dépliantes] - 1747

Lot of 21 color plates. Good condition, signs of pencil annotations as shown in the photo. Insured shipment via Bartolini DPD courier. From private collection.

Claude Casimir Gillet (Dormans, May 19, 1806 – Alençon, September 1, 1896) was a French botanist and mycologist.

He

Botany - Quantity: 21 - Book

Claude Casimir Gillet (1806-1896) - Lot. of 21 tavole "Les Hyménomycètes, ou, Description de tous les champignons (funghi)" - 1874

Louis Noisette. Complete Manual of the Gardener. Nurseryman, botanist, florist, and landscaper.

24 engraved plates.

Brussels, editors Auguste Wahlen and H. Tarlier. 1829. 611 pages. In-12. Grey cloth binding with a spine label bearing the title, author, and dating.

Belgian

Louis Noisette - Manuel complet du jardinier. Pépiniériste, botaniste, fleuriste et paysagiste - 1829

Superb illustrated edition of 250 magnificent plates from this major work of classical botany by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, in which he systematizes the classification and description of plants according to a method based chiefly on the observation of floral characters and

Botany, Illustrated, History, Science - Quantity: 1 - Book

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort - Institutiones Rei Herbariae - 1719

La Quintinie, Jean de | Instruction for the fruit and kitchen gardens, with a treatise on oranges and reflections on agriculture (New ed. revised and corrected)

1739; 2 volumes; in 4° (20x26 cm)
Beautiful eighteenth-century edition of this great classic published in the

Agriculture, Botany - Quantity: 2 - Book

Mr De La Quintinye - Instruction Pour Les Jardins Fruitiers Et Potagers - 1739-1739

THE ENCHANTED GARDEN OF WOMEN PLANTS.
Emblematic work of French Romantic illustration, Les Fleurs Animées represents one of the peaks of J. J. Grandville’s graphic fantasy, where the plant world comes to life and takes on human appearances to stage a subtle and cutting critique

Botany, Illustrated - Quantity: 2 - Hand coloured illustrations - Book

J. J. Grandville - Fleurs Animées - 1850

Good illustrated edition of this fascinating work which gathers an exhaustive inventory of cultivable species — vegetables, flowers, shrubs, fruit trees — as well as cultivation techniques, grafting, pruning, pest control, and landscape design —

It stands out for its pedagogical

Botany, Agriculture, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

Collectif - Le Nouveau Jardinier Illustré - 1865

3 volumes in-4.
Polytechnic Bookshop Ch. Bérenger, 1949.
Half-brown morocco binding with corners, spine with 5 raised bands, plates and numerous illustrations in the text.
List of volumes:
Volume I Part 1: Introduction - The Life of the Earth - Man and the Human Races - The

Biology, Natural History, Botany - Quantity: 3 - Book

Henri Couti ère - Le Monde Vivant - 1949

Description, vertus et usages de sept cents dix-neuf plantes, tant étrangères que de nos climats; et de cent trente-quatre animaux, en sept cents trente planches, gravées en taille-douce, sur les desseins d’après nature, de M. de Garsault, par MM. de Fehrt, Prévost, Duflos,

Medicine, Botany - Quantity: 6 - Tipped in plates - Book

Étienne‑François Geoffroy and François‑Alexandre de Garsault - Description, vertus et usages de sept cents dix-neuf plantes ... - 1767

Larousse Agricole complete in 2 volumes (1921-1922) + Bulletin des Campagnes 1920 – numerous color plates – large format.
Description:
Rare and important complete antique set of the famous Larousse Agricole, published by Librairie Larousse in Paris in the early 1920s.

The set

Agriculture, Animals, Geography, Botany, Cookery, food & drink - Quantity: 3 - Book

E. Chancrin, René Dumont / A. Bessin, Basset, Chazot - Larousse Agricole / Bulletin des Campagnes - 1920-1922

The image you shared most likely comes from an edition of “Dictionnaire universel des drogues simples” by Nicolas Lémery, published in 1748. This work is an encyclopedic dictionary of medicinal substances of vegetal, animal, and mineral origin, used by apothecaries and physicians

Medicine, Botany - Quantity: 1 - Book

Nicolas Lemery - Dictionnaire universel des drogues simples - 1748

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