Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix, et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence.

FIRST EDITION

Aix, J. David, 1715. Folio (35.5 x 32.5 cm). XXXIV, XLVII pp., 1 leaf, 522 (recte 524) pp., 12 leaves, Large Uncut Copy, later green morocco with red spine label, spine gilt, gold-embossed cover fillets, inner edge gilding and marbled endpapers.

With coloured engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved head vignette, 1 engraved initial and 100 coloured copper plates by Honore Blanc.

Early and rare local flora of Provence, also describes the types of wine cultivated there. Plates erratically numbered 1-117, the sequence of skipped numbers given by Nissen does not exactly match the present one, comparison copies show further renumbering. The total number, however, regularly comes to 100. Title with old ownership.

Pierre-Joseph Garidel (1658-1737) was a medical doctor and Royal Professor of Anatomy at the University of Aix-en-Provence. He is known principally for the publication of this thefirst systematic botany of Provence. It contains perhaps the earliest detailed description of Provencal grapes & wines.

Pritzel 3199 ; Nissen BBI 685 (erroneously calls for 39 pages of preliminary text);Hunt 434; Plesch 274