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Apocynaceae - Vinca major From: Figures de la flore des Pyrénées by Philippe Picot de Lapeyrouse. Paris, [1801],, plate 14). Stipple-engraving in colour finished by hand after Pierre-Joseph Redouté engraved by F. Duruisseau (sheet 236 x 400 mm; under passe-partout). Text missing. € 165
This rare work remained unfinished and contains 43 plates, of
which 11 plates after Redouté. The first colorplates published after the first
fascicles of the Plantes grasses are to be found in Philippe Picot de
Lapeyrouse’s (1744-1818) Figures de la flore des Pyrénées (1795-1801) and
in the new edition of Henri-Louis Duhammel de Monceau’s (1700-1782) Traité
des arbres et arbustes … (A catalogue of Redoutéana).* Pritzel 5070; Dunthorne 245; Great flower books p. 64; Nissen BBI 1141; A catalogue of Redoutéana 29; Stafleu & Cowan 4208. www.meemelink.com · index · Apocynaceae |