Jean-Pierre BERGERET. Phytonomatotechnie... - Lot 9 - Kahn & Associés

Jean-Pierre BERGERET. Phytonomatotechnie Universelle/i.e., the art of giving plants names derived from their characters/New System by means of which one can, without the help of any book, name all the plants that grow on the surface of the globe. To the publication of this system, figures, the most methodical descriptions, the analysis, the properties, the virtues, the use, the etymology and the synonymy of all the plants of France are attached. Work proposed by subscription, by Mr. BERGERET, Surgeon, Botany Demonstrator. In Paris, at the author's, rue d'Antin, near the Hotel de Richelieu, Didot le jeune, Libraire-Imprimeur de Monsieur, quai des Augustins. Poisson, Engraver, Cour du Cloître Saint-Honoré. With approval, and privilege of the King. 1783-1784. Volume 1: folding table and 120 plates; Volume 2, 121 plates, pages 241-252 being occupied by a table of Latin, French and phytonomatotechnical names of plants in the first two volumes. T. 3: issues 22-28, 176 pages and plates 248-328; lacking issue 21 which was never published. Two volumes, in folio, 275 x 427.