Accession number
PML 38098
Creator
Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph, 1731-1807.
Published
A Paris : Chez l'auteur rue de la Harpe au dessus du College d'Hartourt, 1783.
Credit line
Purchased in 1944.
Notes
Engraved title page, plus 100 engraved plates (111 plates are known).
Flowers and fruit indigenous to the Hudson River area, Carolina, Baltimore, Virginia, Canada, Jamaica, Labrador, San Domingo, Guiana, Brazil and Mexico.
Not in Brunet. No copy in Brit. Mus., Paris, or Oak Spring.
PML copy has only 99 plates.
Flowers and fruit indigenous to the Hudson River area, Carolina, Baltimore, Virginia, Canada, Jamaica, Labrador, San Domingo, Guiana, Brazil and Mexico.
Not in Brunet. No copy in Brit. Mus., Paris, or Oak Spring.
PML copy has only 99 plates.
Description
[101] leaves : illustrations (100 plates) ; 49 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
All plates hand-coloured. The original numbering engraved on the plates has been scratched out and in the first few plates new roman numerals have been added in ink.
Provenance
Mary Kerr, 1793, signature (title page); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from W.H. Robinson, July 1944.
Binding
3/4 black leather with marbled paper sides.
Classification
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