THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS 144 Engraved Color Plates in Facsimile by REDOUTE, PIERRE JOSEPH - 1981

Wellfleet, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Book Sales, Incorporated, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Tabard Press, 1988. Facsimile Printing, First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good, Owner Book Plate At Fep, Slight Fade At Jacket Spine Area, Contents Clean. Folio. 1833 144 Plates Reproduced In Color Folio, 1988, Unpaginated, The Pinacle Of Redoute s Work G15c7

Wellfleet, 1988-11-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.5000 in x 13.6000 in x 10.5000 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Wellfleet, 1988-11. Hardcover. Good.

Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1988. Cloth, xii, 144 leaves of plates, illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles; 35 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. A beautiful book, with just a tiny bit of staining at the extremities of the boards. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with 144 engraved colour plates in facsimile. Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), the famed botanical illustrator, is known as the "Raphael of flowers." An attractive copy.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio.

Wellfleet. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 1555212549 . Stiff unmarked book in clean yellow cloth and with barely rubbed dust jacket. 144 color plates. Beautiful; 13.6 X 10.5 X 1.5 inches .

Secaucus, New Jersey: The Wellfleet Press, 1988. Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2. 144 Pages. White cloth with gold spine lettering. Minor shelf wear. Dust jacket price $100 is NOT clipped. Interior text pages and the 144 Color Plates are flawless. Pierre Joseph Redoute, born in 1759 on the Franco-Belgian border, and before he was thirty his fame was established in Paris and he was highly honored up to the year of his death in 1840. Even as Redoute collaborated with leading naturalists on several books and was rewarded with the title of Dessinateur to the Institut de France, he continued to specialize in roses, lilies, and lilacs. Redoute created this collection of masterpieces in 1833 as the pinnacle of his craft. In this lavish work many of the plates were touched up by hand as he applied every technique and skill he had perfected, bringing art and nature into close harmony. A professional of self-imposed exacting standards, Redoute never abandoned the search for beauty and… Read More

Wellfleet Press, 1988. Hardcover. Very good/Fine. Facsimile of 1820 edition, with 144 color plates. Oversized. Some tanning along cover edges.

Secaucus, N.J.: Wellfleet. Facsimile . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Pierre Joseph Redoute. An undated facsimile reprint (1981 I think) of 'Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs' [1833]. Folio size, cream cloth, vg+ (shelfwear; two tiny spots on top edge) in dj w/ $100.00 price. 144 color plates.