NUE (Eugene) and Antony MERAY. The Empire of vegetables. Mem - Lot 402

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NUE (Eugene) and Antony MERAY. The Empire of vegetables. Mem - Lot 402
NUE (Eugene) and Antony MERAY. The Empire of vegetables. Memoirs of Cucurbitus I. Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, s.d. (1851). In-8, blue percaline, on the plates gilt and colored, smooth spine decorated in the same way, gilt edges (publisher's cardboard). False title, frontispiece in colors, title, 310 pp. Famous work illustrated with "drôleries végétales" drawn by Amédée Varin : 25 plates in colors off-text, including the frontispiece, engraved on copper (except one on wood) by V. Corbay, in first edition. They represent vegetables with human features, and figure the fight of the asparagus and the artichoke, the Parliamentary Carrot... The woodcut was used as a model for the special irons of the polychrome cartonnage. Modern bookplate R. Chevanne. Some foxing. Joints cracked, spine restored. Binding tarnished. Vicaire VI, 245; Carteret III, 218; Brivois 134-5.
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