[Botany] Rousseau, J.-J. Lettres sur la Botanique

Paris, P. Dupont, 1824. 466,(7) p. Containing 64 (of 65; lacking plate 58) engraved plates col. à la poupée and finished by hand by Bessin, after Redouté. Contemp. gilt half calf w. mor. letterpiece, 8vo. Plates sl. yellowed, very sm. dampstain in top margin, else in very good condition.

Rare octavo edition of Rousseau's botanical works, first published in folio and quarto in 1805. Containing Bessin's beautiful reworkings of Redouté's masterful botanical illustrations. Hunt, Catalogue of Redoutéana 15.