BOTANICS - Garidel, Perre Joseph. Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix, et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence. With coloured eng. Frontispiece, 1 engraved head vignette, 1 engraved initial. Initial and 100 col. Copper plates by Honoré Blanc (for collation see below). Aix, J. David, 1715. folio (35.5 × 32.5 cm). XXXIV, XLVII pp., 1 leaf, 522 (recte 524) pp., 12 ll. Modern green marocco binding with red spine label, gilt spine, gilt-stamped cover fillets, gilt inner edges and marbled endpapers. Nissen BBI 685 (erroneously refers to XXXIX p. preliminaries) - Hunt 434 (inaccurate) - Plesch 274 - not in Stafleu-C. - First edition, title editions published in Paris in 1719 and 1723. Early and rare local flora of Provence, also describing the wine varieties cultivated there. - Plates numbered erratically 1-117, the sequence of skipped numbers given by Nissen does not correspond exactly with the present one, comparative copies show further renumbering. Wide margins, possibly carefully cleaned, frontispiece still stained in margins, title with old ownership note, occasional marginal waterstains, upper outer corner with small brown margin in places, paper somewhat brittle there.