12mo (148 x 80 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved head-pieces and figures; woodcut tail-pieces and initials. (Two leaves roughly opened, not affecting text, tiny spots on a few leaves, some minor worm-holes in lower gutter margin occasionally touching letters.) Contemporary French mottled calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (a few wormholes on the spine, hinges starting). Provenance: Librairie Jacques Lechevalier (bookseller's ticket).

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Grew's first book, published in 1672, The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun, "the first published study of the development of a plant from seed to seed" (LeFanu). Hunt 338; Pritzel 3554.