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Fossier, L. [in C.L. L'héritier de Brutelle]
Senecio reclinatus. Plate V from: Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit.
1785 Handcoloured engraved plate drawn by Fossier and engraved by Jacques Juillet, broadsheet or large imperial folio (45 x 59.6 cm). Uncut. At the back there are traces of glue (not affecting the front). We also have for sale the general title-page and the title-pages of the first and second installments, and plates by Redouté and Freret.A beautiful plate after drawings by L. Fossier. This one is taken from the very rare deluxe large paper and hand-coloured edition of this work, with plates coloured by Piere Redouté and his brother Henri-Joseph Redouté. In 1965 about 44 copies of the work were known of which 9 incomplete, and of 31 studied only 11 were large-sized.In Stirpes novae Charles L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746-1800) described a great number of new species, many of which grew in his own garden, the gardens of his friends and in the Jardin du Roi. See: Günther Buchheim, 1965. A bibliographical account of L'Héritier's 'Stirpes novae'.
Reference : BF28074
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Hermann L. Strack
M. Hermann L. Strack
Porzh Herve
22780 Loguivy Plougras
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+33-679439230
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