Recueil de plantes gravées par ordre du Roi Louis XIV
By: [drawn and engraved by Nicolas Robert]
Contributors: Châtillon, Louis de, 1639-1734; Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676; Dodart, Denis, 1634-1707; Académie royale des sciences (France)
Publisher: de l'Imprimerie Royale
Published: 1701
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Botany; Pictorial works; Flowers in art
Other titles: Plantes du Roi; Recueil des plantes gravées par ordre du Roi Louis XIV; Estampes pour servir à l'histoire des plantes
Notes: vol. 1 as half-title p., front., and 160 unnumbered leaves of plates ; vol. 2 has half-title p. and 159 unnumbered leaves of plates.

Engraved by Nicolas Robert, Abraham Bosse, and Louis de Châtillon.

Imprint taken from Nissen.

This work represents the culmination of the project started by the Académie Royale des Sciences with Dodart's Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes (1675). All 319 plates were first published in this edition, issued without t.p or letterpress. Cf. Blunt, The art of botanical illustration, and Sitwell, Great flower books, 1700-1900.

Blunt p. 111-112.

Nissen 504.

Pritzel 7661.

Sitwell p. 55.