8vo (240 x 138 mm). 200ll. Manuscript in French, ink, 2 with diagrams showing Tournefort or Linnaeus's systems of classification. (Some occasional spotting.) Contemporary French mottled calf, smooth spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (spine ends neatly repaired, some very light rubbing).

A manuscript copy in a legible hand by Mérat of Vaillant's Botanicon parisiense, operis majoris prodituri prodromus, an inventory of plants in the environs of Paris published 1723. Tipped in on thick paper at the beginning is a facsimile of a note from Linneaus to Bernard Jussieu.  Laurent Germain Mérat was a pharmacist in Auxerre, and a member of the Literary Society there. He was friends with both Bernard de Jussieu and Linnaeus.