[Recueil des plantes gravées par ordre du roi Louis XIV]
Contributors: Châtillon, Louis de, 1639-1734.; Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.; Académie des sciences (France)
Published: 1750
Place of publication: [Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.; Botany -- Pictorial works.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: Issued without t.p. and letterpress. Title supplied from Bib. Nat. which describes a later ed. printed in 1788. Cf. W. Blunt, The art of botanical illustration, 1950, p. 111 and BM, vol. 179, column 820.
Engraved by Nicolas Robert, Louis de Châtillon and Abraham Bosse. Originally destined by the Académie des Sciences to accompany Denis Dodart's Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes, only part of which was published.