LE PANIER DE FRUIT bound with LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS. Ouvrage de botanique et de litterature, orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees, et de douze Romances graves avec accompagnement de piano, destine aux jeunes demoiselles. de JAUFFRET L.F. and [MIGER (P.A.M.) THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY.:: - 1807

Paris, chez Perlet, 1807.. FIRST EDTIONS, 2 WORKS BOUND IN ONE VOLUME, 1807. LE PANIER DE FRUITS, ou descriptions botaniques et notices historiques des principaux fruits cultives en France; suivies de differens morceaux de litterature et de morale; ouvrage orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees; destine aux jeunes gens. FIRST EDITION, 1807, French text, 24 fine plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, after the Pretres, pages: viii, 384; LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS: FIRST EDITION 1807 with coloured plates after Pretre, French text, 8vo, approximately 205 x 115 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, 12 folding leaves of engraved music, 24 fine plates printed in colours and finished by hand, after drawings by J.G. PRETRE and his daughter Mlle Josephine Pretre, pages: viii, 384. Bound in contemporary mottled sheep, narrow gilt floral border to covers, gilt decoration to spine, 2 gilt lettered red morocco labels, edges and endpapers marbled. A few hair-line surface cracks to spine, small bump to upper corner of lower cover, small oval ink stamp removed from blank area of first title page, now neatly patched, a total of 8 further ink stamps of E. Tessier throughout the 2 works, not affecting text or images, mostly to lower blank margins, large blank piece torn off lower corner of page 77/78 (first work) now neatly repaired, no loss to text, pale brown stain to lower margin of pages 267-270 (first work), lower blank margin torn off final page of second work now neatly repaired, no loss to text, very good clean copies. This is the Plesch copy with the gilt red leather bookplate of the collection of Arpad Plesch on the front pastedown. SEE: Sotheby's Catalogue of The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, Collected by Arpad Plesch, Part 2, page 183, No. 532; Gordon Dunthorne, Flower and Fruit Prints, 18th & 19th centuries, Catalogue Raisonne, page 172, Numbers 15 & 16; H.Frederic Janson, Pomona's Harvest, An Illustrated Chronicle of Antiquarian Fruit Literature, page 306; Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, No. 45, pages 122-124. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.