Jean-Jacques Rousseau | La Botanique, Paris, 1821, with additional watercolour illustrations, the Hoe copy

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

La Botanique. Paris: Baudouin Frères, 1821

Folio (346 x 258mm.), 65 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, after Redouté, printed by Langlois, 52 pages decorated with additional marginal watercolour illustrations, 3 additional watercolour portraits (of Rousseau, after La Tour, of Madame Gautier, and of Madame Delessert), additional engraved portrait (of 'J. J. Rousseau Herborisant'), green morocco gilt by Belz-Niedrée, spine with raised bands in six compartments, edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, upper hinge cracked, some plates cropped at lower and outer margins (not affecting illustrations)

A unique copy, extra-illustrated with 3 watercolour portraits and 52 pages ornamented with floral and other designs in watercolour.

LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 252; Great Flower Books, p. 134; Nissen BBI 1688; Stafleu TL2 9688

PROVENANCE:

Book label of Robert Hoe III; The Anderson Auction Company, Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York, Part I: L-Z, 1 May 1911, lot 2818