Botany La Fleur, Nicolas-Guillaume de A florae lotharingus. With 12 botanical engravings (incl. title) on 6 vols. Romae, 1639 (i.e. (Paris), Pierre Mariette) 1639. 12 pp. Folio. Mod. Hldr. Of great rarity. Biblioteca del Museo Nacional del Prado, Bord/112 (92767). - Museum of Metropolitan Art, 35.67.1 - Hunt 248 - Not in Nissen. - Berlin State Library (lost during the war). On the artist: Guilmard, Les maîtres ornemanistes, 53 - Robert-Dumesnil, Le Peintre-graveur français, vol. 4, 11f. - Nicolas Guillaume de la Fleur (1608-1670) was a flower painter and etcher from Lorraine, worked in Rome around 1638/39, from around 1644 in Paris and later died in Rome around 1670. In 1638 a series of 13 flower engravings was published under the same title in a different format. The series shows tulips, roses, irises and anemones in an octagonal plate format. - Fleurs lothringische Flora was such a great success that later re-engravings in various formats followed in the Netherlands (cf. Dussieux. Les artistes français à l'étranger, 332). - Fine burnished impressions partly with delicate plate tone. - Good copy of the rare edition. Botany. - Of great rarity. Nicolas Guillaume de la Fleur (1608-1670) was a flower painter and etcher from Lorraine, worked in Rome around 1638/39, from around 1644 in Paris and later died in Rome around 1670. In 1638 a series of 13 flower engravings was published under the same title in a different format. The series shows tulips, roses, irises and anemones in an octagonal plate format. - Fleurs lothringische Flora was such a great success that later re-engravings in various formats followed in the Netherlands (cf. Dussieux. Les artistes français à l'étranger, 332). - Fine rough impressions partly with delicate plate tone. - Good copy of the rare edition.