Vaillant's Botanicon Parisiense 1727

BOTANY WITH ENGRAVED PLATES. VAILLANT, SEBASTIEN. Botanicon Parisiense ou denombrement par ordre alphabetique des plantes, qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris. Leiden - Amsterdam (I. and H. Verbeek - B. Lakeman) 1727.Folio (380x240 mm). (34), xii, (4), 205, (48) pp. Title with engraved vignette, 1 engraved portrait of the author engraved by Houbraken, 1 folding engraved map (L'Archeveché de Paris), 32 engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar after Claude Aubriet (lacking 1[no 19, replaced with a copy], portrait with some staining to margin, map with long repaired tear and partly with repaired folds, some spots, plates partly with spotting and foxing, 1 with inkstains and minor tear to inner part, last two plates and text partly loose; text with some spotting and foxing, some notes, mostly to margins).Contemporary half vellum with marbled boards, partly worn and rubbed, staining on upper cover, manuscript title on spine.Nissen 2033. Hunt 470. Pritzel 9657. First edition. Sebastien Vaillant (1