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Rousseau, (Jean Jacques) LA BOTANIQUE DE J. J. ROUSSEAU. PARIS: L. E. HERHAN FOR DELACHAUSSIE ET GARNERY, 1805 Half-title, title-page with uncolored stipple-engraved vignette. Illustration: 65 stipple-engraved plates (numbered 1–53, 62, 55–62, [63], 64–65), printed in colors and finished by hand, by Bouguet, Jacques Chailly, Mlle. Delelo, and others, after Redouté, printed by Langlois. Royal folio (20 5/8 x 13 1/2 in.; 525 x 342 mm). Binding: Expertly bound to style in half green straight grained morocco over period red patterned paper-covered boards, flat spine in six compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt, red endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (armorial bookplate and press-mark "Inner Library Ab.L1.No 2" on verso of flyleaf). Some foxing to text and plates, mostly marginal, plates 1, 52, 61, 65 particularly affected. Significant wear to lower corner of back board, affecting the extreme corners of plates 49–65 to varying degrees.