A Redoute Treasury: 468 Watercolours from Les Liliacees of Pierre-Joseph Redoute
by Pierre Joseph Redoute; Peter And Frances Mallary
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1555215181
- ISBN 13
- 9781555215187
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Wellfleet Press, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine copy in Near Fine dustwrapper with clipped price. Pages and covers are crisp intact and unmarked except for very light foxing to endpapers. One inch tear and some ear to the back side of jacket. 228 pages with Notes on the plates and Index. 468 color illustrations by Pierre Joseph Redoute throughout. Heavy and/oroversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Contact us prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping. Pierre-Joseph Redoute, often called the 'Raphael of flowers', is history's most famous botanical artist. This edition reproduces the entire 468 watercolours known to survive from LES LILLACEES, thus conveying to posterity all the scientific and aesthetic brilliance of the originals.
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- Bookseller
- Modern First Editions Boston (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001804
- Title
- A Redoute Treasury: 468 Watercolours from Les Liliacees of Pierre-Joseph Redoute
- Author
- Pierre Joseph Redoute; Peter And Frances Mallary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1555215181
- ISBN 13
- 9781555215187
- Publisher
- Wellfleet Press
- Place of Publication
- Secaucus, Nj
- Date Published
- 1986
- Pages
- 228
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Modern First Editions Boston
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