Pierre-ജAntoine Poiteau and Pi🅺erre Jean François Turpin

Flora Parisiensis. Paris: F. Schoell, 1808 [-1813]

Folio (505 x 340mm.), 48 (of 48) chromolithographed plates (numbered 1-5, 7-10, 12-15, 17-20, 22-26, 28-32, 34-35, 37-41, 45-53, 59, 61, 68, 74, 75), original wrapper for first livraison, later red three-quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut with sprinkled edges, some light spotting, marks to lower board

Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (1766–1854) was a French botanist, gardener and botanical artist, heavily influenced by Redouté. As head of a botanical mission in Haiti, he met Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840), another French botanist and illustrator, one of the greatest of the Napoleonic era, and together they published the renowned Flora Parisiensis.

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Great Flower Books, p. 71; Nissen BBI 1553; Sitwell and Blunt, p. 71; Stafleu TL2 8122