Kavel 1097
1097
BOTANY -- VINCENT, H.A. Collection de 24 bouquets de fleurs. Par., Lambert, 1835. W. handcold. engr. ti., 24 stipple-engr. plates, printed in colour & finished by hand. Sm-fol. Cont. quarter cf., w. gilt floral ornaments and title on spine, marbled endpapers, uncut. (Small split at bottom of spine, a few marginal spots, otherwise a very good, clean and complete copy w. ample margins).
A very rare work on flowers and flower bouquets by the botanical artist Henriette Antoinette Vincent née Rideau du Sal (1786-1834), who studied painting in Paris under the great Redouté (1759-1840) and Gérard van Spaendonck (1746-1822) and Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). This work is generally as beautiful and detailed as her much-acclaimed Études de Fleurs et de Fruits (see Dunthorne, and Blunt), only much rarer. Provenance: on the front pastedown the small armorial bookplate of Herman Paillex, Geneva. Paillex owned one of the largest and most natural history libraries in Switzerland. - Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, pp. 181-182; Dunthorne 32. Neither in Nissen (who lists three other works by Vincent, underscoring its rarity), nor in the Plesch library.€ 5500
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