Nouvelle botanique medicale comprenant les plantes des jardins et des champs susceptibles d'être employées dans l'art de guérir. De leurs vertus et de leurs dangers, d'après les anciens auteurs et les auteurs modernes, avec planches dessinées et peintes d'après nature, puis chrômo-lithographiées, par M.-A.-A.- Mareschal. A superbly decorative and detailed collection in four volumes. Four quarto volumes. Issued in 100 fascicules which are here collected and bound in. The original first edition pagination of the separate fascicules is preserved. Complete with 200 chromo-lithographic plates by Mareschal. The plates have been finished and accented by hand, giving them a very attractive quality. With the Latin-French names of plants and their etymology, their families, habitat, culture, harvest, utilization and preservation of their odor and saving. Table at the end of last volume. Lovely contemporary binding in green half shagreen.