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REDOUTE, PIERRE-JOSEPH. 1759-1040. ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. 1712-1778. La botanique. Paris: Baudouin Freres, 1822. image 1
REDOUTE, PIERRE-JOSEPH. 1759-1040. ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. 1712-1778. La botanique. Paris: Baudouin Freres, 1822. image 2
REDOUTE, PIERRE-JOSEPH. 1759-1040. ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. 1712-1778. La botanique. Paris: Baudouin Freres, 1822. image 3
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Lot 97

REDOUTE, PIERRE-JOSEPH. 1759-1040.
ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. 1712-1778.
La botanique. Paris: Baudouin Freres, 1822.

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REDOUTE, PIERRE-JOSEPH. 1759-1040.

ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. 1712-1778. La botanique. Paris: Baudouin Freres, 1822.
Large 4to (367 x 268 mm). Half-title, title page with stipple-engraved vignette, 65 stipple-engraved plates printed in color and finished by hand, by Bouquet, Gabriel, and others after Redouté. Contemporary half straight-grain morocco and marbled boards by Thouvenin. Rubbed, scattered foxing.
Provenance: Freiherr Ernst von Grunelius, Freifrau Anna von Grunelius née Gräfin von Bernstorff (bookplates dated 1929); by descent to the present owner.

Second quarto edition. "This work is Redouté's last link with the ancien régime: his old patrons had all died, or, like Cels, who died in 1806, had ceased to be influential. Redouté had entered easily into a new life under the empire. On the whole, it can be said that it is remarkable how little Redouté was affected by the political and social changes that took place around him" (Stafleu in Lawrence, Redouteana, p 23). Rousseau had first published his Essais élémentaires sur le botanique in Paris in 1771. His interest had been aroused, in 1763 or 1764, by his enforced exile in Switzerland. Dunthorne 252; Great Flower Books, p 134; Nissen BBI 1688; Stafleu TL2 9688

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