Paris, Desray, 1815 [AND] Paris, H. Agasse, 1806. Six volumes in seven. 8vo (20.8 x 13.8 cm). 3717 pp.; 11 plates, one map, one table. Uniform 20th-century half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands and two red morocco labels with gilt border, authors' names and title. Marbled endpapers.

The third and best edition of this authoritative work, written by two of the foremost 18th to early19th-century French botanists. The last volume is by De Candolle alone. A breakdown is as follows: I (1): xvi, 224 pp. and 11 engraved, folding plates; I (2) 588 pp.; one very large, folded table; II: xii, 600 pp. and a very large, partly hand-coloured map; III: [iv], 731 pp.; IV: [iv], 944, [ii] pp. de notes pour le relieur; V: 662 pp. The Synopsis Plantarum xxiv, 432 pp. Provenance: first volume with on the half-titles a small label, Ex Libris Sem. SS. Claromon J. M. J., as well as a weak stamp of the same on the title, and a small botanical bookplate of J. and A. Raynal mounted on the title page verso. Aline Marine Raynal-Roques (1937-2022) was a French botanist and professor at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, who specialized in tropical floras, especially of Africa. Her husband, and colleague Jean Raynal (1933-1979) was a deputy director at the same institution. He died in a car accident in Niger. The Synopsis Plantarum with, on the title page, "Fabre Lieut.t d'Artie" in an old hand. Some damp-staining in the lower margin of the first leaves of Volumes II-IV; heavier, with signs of mildew in Vol. IV; Vol. V with some foxing; the half-title of the Synopsis Plantarum reinforced, one plate caption a bit shaved. Otherwise very good. Pritzel, 1468 [ Flore, under Candolle], 1470, 5007 [Synopsis]. Although the work includes plates it is not in Nissen BBI.