Paris, Roret, 1846. 8vo (23.6 x 15.5 cm). 71 pp.; 160 engraved plates [numbered 1-8, 1-152], of which 135 finely hand-coloured. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and two polished morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

A seldom-seen atlas of a "Suites à Buffon" edition, written by the French botanist Edouard Spach (1801-1879). It should be complete with 14 text volumes, but this is the atlas only. The first eight plates are plain, then numbering starts anew, with those plates depicting plants finely hand-coloured, and several showing plant parts [7, 8, 13, 15, 18, 31, 37, 48, 54, 55, 76, 85, 86, 108, 117, 119, 128] uncoloured; all as intended. Some plates very lightly spotted; plates 31-38, 61-70 partly toned; otherwise a very good, clean copy. Nissen BBI, 1878.