Le grand jardin de l'univers, : ou se trouvent coloriées, les plantes les plus belles, les plus curieuses et les plus rarea des quatre parties de la Terre, formant la continuation de l'herbieu de la Chine, de la Collection des Fleurs de la Chine et de l'Europe, des dous merveilleux dans le règne Végétal et du jardin Dédeu. / Par Mr. Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz ...
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (1731-1807)
Category
Books
Date
1785
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100908
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 17, [1] p., CLXXXIV leaves of plates : col. ill. ; fol. Hand coloured plates. Bookseller's pencil notes and pencil number "556" on front free endpaper verso. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front free endpaper verso: "After my decease, I bequeath this valuable Work to my dear Son James. Charles Forbes July 3rd 1856". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth-/nineteenth-century half green morocco, marbled paper over boards; blind and gilt tooled spine; spine title lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Grand jardin de l'univers'; sewn onto seven recessed cords; five false bands; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ticket on front pastedown: 'Bound by Jacques Chichester'.
Makers and roles
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (1731-1807) , author Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (1731-1807) , artist