Pierre-Joseph Garidel

Histoire des plantes qui naissent en Provence et principalement aux environs d’Aix. Aix and Paris: Antoine-Urbain Coustelier, 1719

FIRST EDITION, folio (350 x 240mm.), engraved frontispiece by Bouisson, engraved headpiece and initial, 99 engraved plates (of 100), plate 35 with a contemporary manuscript overlay caption, contemporary calf, preliminary leaf repaired obscuring a small portion of text, binding slightly worn

Since Pierre-Jospeh Garidel was a medical doctor and professor of anatomy, this work e🌸mphasises plants which had a medicinal use. This is a reissue of the 1715 edition.

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