Jean BERGERET, *Flora of the Basses-Pyrénées*, or a descript - Lot 555

Jean BERGERET, *Flora of the Basses-Pyrénées*, or a description of all plants that grow naturally, are cultivated, or could be advantageously cultivated in the department of the Basses-Pyrénées. With observations on their usefulness in agriculture and domestic life, in the arts, and in medicine. Pau, Véronèse, Year XI (1803). 2 vols., in-8, modern full grained calfskin binding signed E. FRATRE, spine with decorated raised bands. (Title page of Vol. I missing; small tear in the margin on p. 187) Copy from the archives of the Basse-Pyrénées Prefecture, with a certificate of transfer from the prefecture dated May 26, 1990. FIRST EDITION. The second expanded edition, published by the author’s descendants, dates from 1909. One of the very first books printed by Adolphe Véronèse, private secretary to General Serviez and later to General de Castellane, who purchased Daumon’s printing house in 1803. Before the flora proper, there is an “elementary course in botany” that occupies half of Volume 1, and at the end of the same volume, a “Memoir Read to the Council of Agriculture” concerning the development of Pont-Long (Labarère 160).