Author: BULLIARD Pierre :
Title: Dictionnaire élémentaire de Botanique ou exposition par ordre alphabétique des préceptes de la botanique , & de tous les termes , tant françois que latins , consacrés à l'étude de cette Science.
Description: .: Paris, chez l'auteur, et chez Didot le jeune, Barrois le jeune , Belin, 1783, in-folio, 35,5 x 23 cm, viii pp + 242 pp + (14)nn pp (plate explanations printed on one side only) + (1)nn pp (errata) + 10 engraved hors texte (9 with handcolouring) (complete). Uncut copy with large margins, bound in contemporary blue marbled boards, with a printed title label tipped on to the front cover. (Most probably the publisher's binding). Marbled paper with some wear, but interior very clean and crisp, a handsome copy. This is the first edition of Bulliard's dictionary intended as an introduction to his famous '' Herbier de la France '' in 6 vols (1780-1793). The finely engraved and coloured plates depict plant details, sometimes a s many as 70 items on a plate. Pritzel 1355 , Hunt 667.. .

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