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Lot 244
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$500 -
700
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$1,512
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Lot Description
[MANUSCRIPT—BOTANY]. “Memoire de mes arbres fruitiers dans mes differens jardins en clos.” [France], 1780.
64 leaves, 12mo (104 x 63mm). In French. (Some soiling and thumbing.) Bound in contemporary French olive morocco, covers elaborately gilt to a rococco style (text block becoming loose, minor wear to spine and extremities). Provenance: unidentified engraved bookplate with monogram “LAC.”
A charming pocket notebook listing a wide variety of plants within the gardens and orchards of an 18th-century botanist. Includes hops, large and small orchards, vegetable gardens, melons, etc.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil




