Botany.- France.- Jaume Saint-Hilaire (Jean Henri) Plantes de la France, 10 vol., 10 lithograph portraits, 1,000 stipple-engraved plates printed in colour, some heightened with watercolour, tissue-guards, contemporary calf-backed boards, gilt spines browned, rubbed, extremities worn, [Dunthorne 211; Nissen BBI 989; Great Flower Books p.61], 4to, Paris, 1822-19-22.

⁂ Rarely found complete, as here. The first 4 volumes are here as is often the case in the second issue of 1822. "It is not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that precise scientific drawing commences to characterize French flower plates but with the transition the French artists such as Jaume St. Hilaire, Bessa, Turpin and Redouté rose almost immediately to world pre-eminence. These names are collector's high points." (Dunthorne p.4). Jaume Saint-Hilaire studied flower painting under van Spaendonck in Paris.