La flore et la pomone françaises
Subtitle: histoire et figure en couleur, des fleurs et des fruits de France ou naturalisés sur le sol français
By: par m. Jaume Saint-Hilaire ...
Publisher: Chez l'auteur, rue Furstemberg
Published: 1828
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Botany; Pictorial works; Horticulture; Flowers; Fruit; Classification
Notes: "Imprimerie de A. Firmin Didot, rue Jacob, n. 24."

T. 1: 1828, plates 1-100 [6 plate nos. supplied in ms.]; t. 2: 1829, plates 101-200; t. 3: 1830, plates 201-300; t. 4: 1831, plates 301-400; t. 5: 1832, plates 401-500; t. 6: 1833, plates 501-544.

There were 800 plates planned; one copy (Plesch) had a sequence of 501-552, which bibliographically is unique?

There were three separate issues: (1.) "Jésus grand" on ordinary wove paper, (2.) "Vélia" in quarto, and (3.) "Velin" in folio, 12 copies.

Stafleu (2nd) 3311.

Pritzel (2nd) 4404.

Nissen, C. Die Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.) 988.

Sitwell & Blunt, Great flower books: 1700-1900 p. 61.

Dunthorne 160.

Plesch, Répertoire bibliographique de la bibliothèque p. 280-281.