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[SCIENCE AND MEDICINE] - RARE BOTANICAL WORK EARLY 18th CENTURY - DEVILLE Nicolas (1712 - 1770) - [BOTANY] — Histoire des Plantes de l’Europe, et des plus usitées qui viennent d’Asie, d’Afrique, & d’Amérique. Lyon: Nicolas Deville, 1707. 12mo (approx. 173 x 105 mm); contemporary full vellum, spine with gilt-lettered morocco label; (24), 866,(40) ff. Complete and rarely found with both volumes Richly illustrated botanical compendium on European plants and the most commonly used species imported from Asia, Africa and the Americas. This work offer an encyclopedic account of plants species and the transmission of knowledge about non-European flora during the colonial period.