Traité de la culture du nopal, et de l'éducation de la cochenille dans les colonies françaises de l'Amérique; précédé d'un Voyage a Guaxaca, v.1

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Copy 1 of 2 versions. 2 v. :|bcol. ill. ;|c22 cm. (8vo) "Voyage a Guaxaca": v. 1, p. [1]-261, 2nd count; v. 2, p. [2-3], 94, 3rd and 4th counts "Liste de MM. les souscripteurs à l'ouvrage de feu M. Thiery de Menonville, botaniste bréveté du Roi à Saint-Domingue", v. 1, p. [ix]-xiv, includes subscribers exclusively in Saint-Domingue "Eloge de M. Thiery de Menonville, prononcé par M. Arthaud": v. 1, p. [xcix]-cxviii "Traité de la culture du nopal et de l'éducation de la cochenille dans les colonies françaises de l'Amérique"; v. 2, p. [3-4], 264-436, 1st and 2nd counts Pagination: v. 1:cxliv, 261, [1] p.; v. 2: [5], 264-439, [3], 94, [4] p., [2] folded leaves of plates Signatures: v. 1: a-i A-Q R1-3; v. 2: chi² R4-8 S-2D 2E (2E4 verso blank); pi² (-pi2) A-F (-F8) (F3 missigned C3, F4 missigned E4) G² (G2 verso blank) Sabin Pritzel Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800 John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound into 2 volumes with binder's titles: I: Voyage a Guaxaca and II: De la culture de nopal; wanting "Table des matieres", p. [437]-439, [1], 2nd-3rd counts, and "Avis au relieur", binder's instructions, p. [3], 5th count; copy 2, v. 1 wanting half-title leaf, and v. 2 has half-title and title page leaves misbound after p. [1], 3rd count John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has 2 hand-colored, folded plates bound after v. 2, p., [4], 5th count, and plate no. [1] is trimmed at foot, affecting text in caption; copy 2, v. 2 has 1 hand-colored, folded plate bound after p. [3], 3rd count, and other after p. 4, 4th count John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary full treed calf Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Westdean Library [Westdean, East Sussex, England?]: book label on front pastedown
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