Contains the published portion of an unfinished five-division work, to which the author's "Dictionnaire élémentaire de botanique" was intended as an introductory volume. Plates for three divisions were published without text as 1.-13. année, 1780-93, to be arranged later according to division. Two divisions only had corresponding text published: "Histoire des plantes vénéneuses de la France" and "Histoire des champignons de la France." Of the latter, tome 1 (1791) was reissued in two parts, "par Bulliard and Ventenant," Paris, Leblanc, 1809; and tome 2, edited from Bulliard's ms. by E. P. Ventenant, was published in two parts, Paris, Leblanc, 1812. Text for "Histoire des plantes médicinales, " intended as the 3rd division, was never published, nor were text and plates for divisions 4-5.

A few plates are not colored.

Tail-pieces.

Includes indexes.

WSU MASC copy: text bound together as vol. 1; plates bound into four additional vols.: pl. 1-149 (v. 2), pl. 150-300 (v. 3), pl. 301-450 (v. 4), pl. 451-602 (v. 5).

WSU MASC copy has bookplate on front pastedown of each vol.: "Library of the Boston Society of Natural History" together with "By-laws, section IV, of the library".

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WSU MASC copy is: 002-117281741, v. 1-2 ; 002-117281758, v. 3 ; 002-117281766, v. 4 ; 002-117281774, v. 5 ; 002-117281782, v. 6.

WSU MASC copy: text bound together as vol. 1; plates bound into four additional vols.: pl. 1-149 (v. 2), pl. 150-300 (v. 3), pl. 301-450 (v. 4), pl. 451-602 (v. 5).