Botany.- Regnault (Nicolas François) La Botanique, 3 vol., first edition, 3 hand-coloured engraved titles, 472 hand-coloured plates, engraved 'Introduction à la Botanique' to vol.1, 'Tables des Maladies' and 'Table des noms des Plantes' at end of vol.3, some damp-staining and fraying to margins to last few plates and ff. of vol.3, plates and text numbered in ink at head, modern green straight-grain half morocco, spine gilt in compartments with floral motif and with red morocco labels, [Dunthorne 256; Great Flower Books p.72; Nissen BBI, 1600; Stafleu & Cowan 8810], folio, Paris, chez l'auteur, 1774.

⁂ "Perhaps the most impressive French botanical book of the period" (Blunt). He amusingly describes the potato 'as possibly the only good thing that ever came out of America'. Regnault was a French physician and botanist and his wife, Genéviève de Nangis Regnault, drew and engraved most of the plates.